The CMMI approach has been a huge success with large and small organizations alike.
It is used by many major companies e.g. Boeing, General Motors, IBM, Motorola, Wipro
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Underlying premise
Can improve quality of the product through a focus on key aspects of the process
Maturity Levels
Provides a five stage roadmap to move from unpredictable project performance, to achieving sustained, excellent performance as an organisation.
Each level contains a set of inter-related process areas.
Level 1: Initial
Level 2: Managed
Level 3: Defined
Level 4: Quantitatively Managed
Level 5: Optimizing
Process areas
The process areas are highlighted in the right-hand column.
Each process area has a [number] of specific goals
Managed
Basic project management processes well-established for each project
Requirements Management [1]
Project Planning [3]
Project Monitoring and Control [2]
Supplier Agreement Management [2]
Measurement and Analysis [2]
Process and Product QA [2]
Configuration Management [3]
Defined
Projects use and improve the project management & engineering processes, from the well-established organization management systems
Requirements Development [3]
Technical Solution [3]
Product Integration [3]
Verification [3]
Validation [2]
Organizational Process Focus [2]
Organizational Process Definition
[1]
Organizational Training
[2]
Integrated Project Management [2]
Risk Management [3]
Decision Analysis and Resolution [1]
Quantitatively Managed
Greater confidence in project outcomes through use of data to manage the projects and the processes
Organizational Process Performance [1]
Quantitative Project Management [2]
Optimizing
Maintain competitive edge through use of data to permanently fix problems and to improve performance
Organizational Innovation and Deployment [2]
Causal Analysis and Resolution [2]
Best practice guidance
Each specific goal has a number of specific practices, each with examples of typical work products and sub-practices...
Each process area also has a generic goal and practices that ensure that described processes are the way the organization normally works i.e. they are institutionalized