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Integrated Capability Maturity Model (CMMI)

Capability Maturity Model- Integration (CMMI^®) provides guidance for improving your organization processes and your ability to manage the development, acquisition and maintenance of products and services.

CMMI enables organizations that want to pursue process improvement in multiple functional areas with less additional investment for each additional function.

CMMI supports process integration and product improvement.
CMMI integrates multiple disciplines into one process-improvement framework.
CMMI provides a framework for introducing new disciplines as needs arise.

CMMI Provides:

Efficient, effective assessment and improvement across multiple process disciplines in an organization
Improvements to best practices incorporated from the Software CMM
A common, integrated vision of improvement for all elements of an organization
A means of representing new discipline-specific information in a standard, proven process-improvement context

There are two representations of CMMI®

1. Staged Representation

Provides a proven sequence of improvements, each serving as a foundation for the next
Permits comparisons across and among organizations by the use of maturity levels
Provides an easy migration from the SW-CMM to CMMI
Provides a single rating that summarizes appraisal results and allows comparisons among organizations

2. Continuous Representation

Allows you to select the order of improvement that best meets your organization's business objectives and mitigates your organization's areas of risk
Enables comparisons across and among organizations on a process-area-by-process-area basis

Both the representations of the CMMI-staged and continuous use the same process areas

Process Area Mapped to the Maturity Level
Maturity Level	Process Area
Level 1: Initial Process unproductive, poorly controlled and reactive
Level 2: Managed Process characterized for projects and is often reactive	Requirement Management Project Planning Project Monitoring and Control Supplier Agreement management Measurement and Analysis Process and Product Quality Assurance Configuration Management
Level 3: Defined Process characterized for the organization and is proactive	Requirements Development Technical Solution Product Integration Verification Validation Organizational process Focus Organizational Process definition Organizational Training Integrated Project management Risk Management Decision Analysis and Resolution
Level 4: Quantitatively Managed Process measured and controlled	Organizational Process performance Quantitative project Management
Level 5: Optimizing Focus on continuous process improvement	Organizational Innovation and Deployment Casual Analysis and Resolution

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