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Preface
The Capability Maturity Model®
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Integration (CMMI
SM2
) project has
involved a large number of people from different organizations
throughout the world. These organizations were using one or more
CMMs® and were interested in the benefits of developing an integration
framework to aid in enterprise-wide process improvement and
integration activities.
The CMMI project work is sponsored by the U.S. Department of
Defense (DoD), specifically the Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics (OUSD/AT&L).
Industry sponsorship is provided by the Systems Engineering
Committee of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA).
Organizations from industry, government, and the Software Engineering
Institute (SEI) joined together to develop the CMMI Framework, the
CMMI model, and supporting products. These organizations donated
the time of one or more of their people to participate in the CMMI
project.
Model Development History
As CMMI project team, we have been working to provide systems
engineering and software engineering guidance that encourages
process improvement in organizations of any structure.
Since 1991, CMMs have been developed for a myriad of disciplines.
Some of the most notable include models for systems engineering,
software engineering, software acquisition, workforce practices, and
integrated product and process development.
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® CMM, Capability Maturity Model, and Capability Maturity Modeling are registered in the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office.
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CMMI is a service mark of Carnegie Mellon University.
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Although these models have proven useful to many organizations, the
use of multiple models has been problematic. Many organizations
would like to focus their improvement efforts across the disciplines
within their organizations. However, the differences among these
discipline-specific models, including their architecture, content, and
approach, has limited these organizations’ ability to focus their
improvement successfully. Further, applying multiple models that are
not integrated within and across an organization becomes more costly
in terms of training, assessments, and improvement activities. A model
that successfully integrates disciplines and has integrated training and
assessment support would address these problems.
The CMM IntegrationSM
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project was formed to sort out the problem of
using multiple CMMs. Our project’s mission was to combine three
source models—(1) Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-
CMM®) v2.0 draft C, (2) Electronic Industries Alliance/Interim Standard
(EIA/IS) 731, and (3) Integrated Product Development Capability
Maturity Model (IPD-CMM) v0.98—into a single model for use by
organizations pursuing enterprise-wide process improvement.
Developing this model has involved more than simply adding existing
model materials together. Using processes that promote consensus, we
have built a framework that accommodates multiple disciplines and is
flexible enough to support two different representations (staged and
continuous).
Using information from popular and well-regarded models as source
material, we created a cohesive integrated model that can be adopted
by those currently using other CMMs as well as by those new to the
CMMI concept.
Our mission included the development of a common framework for
supporting the future integration of other discipline-specific CMMI
models. Furthermore, our mission contained the objective of ensuring
all of the products developed are consistent and compatible with the
International Organization for Standardization/International
Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 15504 technical report for
software process assessment.
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Acknowledgments
Many talented people were involved as part of our development team
for the CMMI Product Suite
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. Three primary groups involved in this
development have been the steering group, product development team,
and stakeholder/reviewers.
The steering group guides and approves the plans of the product
development team, provides consultation on significant CMMI project
issues, and ensures involvement from a variety of interested
communities.
The product development team writes, reviews, revises, discusses, and
agrees on the structure and technical content of the CMMI Product
Suite1 including the framework, model, training, and assessment
materials. Development activities were based on an A-Specification
provided by the steering group, the three source models, and
comments from stakeholder and steering group members.
The stakeholder/reviewer group of organizations provided valuable
insight in the early effort that was used to combine the models. Their
review of both the pre-release version (v0.1) and the piloted version 0.2
gave the product development team valuable organizational
perspectives.
Version 0.2 was publicly reviewed and used in initial pilot activities.
Following release of that version, improvement has been guided by
change requests from the public review, piloting organizations, and
various focus group sessions. The product development team, led by
the CMMI Editor team, evaluated over 3,000 change requests to create
this version. But as with any release, the opportunity for further
improvement remains. We have begun planning for version 1.1 to
accommodate further improvements from early use of this model.
The CMMI product development team has had the benefit of two
distinguished leaders during the last 2-1/2 years. Project manager, Jack
Ferguson, led the CMMI development team from the project’s inception
through to the release of CMMI-SE/SW V0.2. Project manager, Mike
Phillips, led the team from the release of CMMI-SE/SW V0.2 to the
present.
Members of the CMMI Editor team played a critical role in releasing this
model. In fact, this team was primarily responsible for guiding revision
of the model from V0.2 to V1.0. The Editor team served as the core
model development team, configuration control board, and decision-
making body for the model revision. Members contributed many hours
of intensive work that resulted in Version 1.0.
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The CMMI Product Suite is the set of products produced from the CMMI Framework, which includes the
framework itself, models, assessment materials, and training materials.
