The Integrated Product Development CMM SM

The Integrated Product Development (IPD) Capability Maturity Model (CMM 1 ) is being developed as a framework to (1) establish, appraise, and improve processes for the entire product life cycle, where “product” includes both goods and services; (2) provide a common reference model and language for IPD concepts; (3) support the adoption of IPD in a wide range of industries, service operations, government, and academia; and (4) be the framework for integrating other popular CMMs and quality frameworks such as the SE‐CMM (Bate, et al 96), SECAM (INCOSE 96), SW‐CMM (Paulk, et al 93), and ISO‐9000 (ISO 91). The Enterprise Process Improvement Collaboration (EPIC) has been developing the IPD‐CMM since March 1995. The model reported on here, Version 0.9, will be revised prior to general release in mid‐1997, based on feedback from pilots, public review, and additional development by the authors. Because IPD is increasingly central to systems engineering, and because systems engineering process improvement must be coordinated with process improvement initiatives for other disciplines, such as software, the IPD‐CMM will likely have a broad impact on the systems engineering community.