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Capability Maturity Model ® Integration (CMMI SM ): A view from the sponsors
Author(s) -
Rassa Robert C.,
Garber Vitalij,
Etter Delores
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
systems engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.474
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1520-6858
pISSN - 1098-1241
DOI - 10.1002/sys.10011
Subject(s) - capability maturity model integration , leancmmi , capability maturity model , maturity (psychological) , engineering management , systems engineering , engineering , process management , software engineering , computer science , software development process , software , software development , operating system , psychology , developmental psychology
Abstract The Capability Maturity Model ® Integration (CMMI SM ) Project is a joint Industry—Government—Software Engineering Institute collaborative effort to develop an enterprise‐wide process improvement product suite based on existing capability models and methods. The Project is sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense as well as by the National Defense Industrial Association Systems Engineering Committee. The first completed CMMI SM product suite was released to the public for adoption in December 2000. This paper will describe the origins and rationale for the CMMI SM Project, providing significant and detailed background information as well as a snapshot of current status and future plans. It will highlight some of the documented benefits of Capability Maturity Models, with specific focus on software engineering since this is the discipline where the greatest savings have been documented as a result of implementation of process improvement in engineering development. The paper will describe the CMMI SM product suite components, and delineats some of the anticipated benefits from CMMI SM adoption. Finally, the paper will discuss the CMMI SM Version 1.1 update. © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Syst Eng 5: 3–6, 2002; DOI 10.1002/sys.10011