Capability Maturity Model Integration

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI, registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University, is a process improvement approach. CMMI can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. Processes are rated according to their maturity levels, which are defined as: Initial, Repeatable, Defined, Quantitatively Managed, and Optimizing.

Currently supported version is CMMI Version 1.3

CMMI currently addresses three areas of interest and we fall under the CMMI-DEV area.

• Product and service development — CMMI for Development (CMMI-DEV),
• Service establishment, management, — CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC), and
• Product and service acquisition — CMMI for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ).

Just to help all understand on the benefits of Process improvement. It enables organizations to mature and customers, suppliers, and employees would like to deal with organizations with mature characteristics.

Mature Organization	Immature Organization
Reliable	Un reliable with undefined output
Committed	May not meet commitments
Dependable as partner	Undependable with quality of output
Responds (After analysis)	Reactions without thinking.
Decisions are made using available data	Ignores the available data.
Learns from competition	Only believes that they are different
Plans and reassess plans	Planning is not their thinking
Prepared for risks (always had plan B/C)	Totally unprepared

CMMI leads the way to high performance through improved processes.

The management of the development and delivery of applications must be guided by quantitatively managed processes.

Performance comes from processes that are predictable, repeatable, and continuously improving in terms of product quality, cost and schedule performance, process performance, and customer satisfaction.

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