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Book Description:

This single volume comprises the full, official book version of the CMMI, the much anticipated follow up to the Capability Maturity Model.

Provides official documentation in book form for learning and implementing the latest process improvement framework. The CMMI initiative is already receiving significant marketing support from the SEI and its partners. Helps the reader understand what is in each CMMI model, and decide how CMMI can best address their organization's needs. User level-Intermediate.

Audience-
Anyone interested in process improvement. IT managers, project managers, software engineers - anyone working for an organization that is moving toward CMMI can gain value from this new title.

Author Biography-
All three authors are affiliated with the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Mary Beth Chrissis was one of the principal CMM book coauthors, and a key bridge between the original model and the new one. Mike Konrad manages the day to day development of the CMMI. Sandy Shrum is an SEI technical writer assigned to the project.

Synopsis:

This single volume comprises the full, official book version of the CMMI, the follow up to the "Capability Maturity Model". The text provides documentation for learning and implementing the latest process improvement framework in 2003.

Table of Contents:

Preface. Purpose of This Book. Audience. Organization of This Book. How to Use This Book. Readers New to Process Improvement. Readers Experienced with Process Improvement. Readers Familiar with CMMI. Additional Information and Reader Feedback. Acknowledgments. I. ABOUT CMMI. 1. Introduction. About Capability Maturity Models. Evolution of CMMI. Coverage of the Bodies of Knowledge. Systems Engineering. Software Engineering. Integrated Product and Process Development. Supplier Sourcing. Selecting Disciplines. Process Areas for Systems Engineering. Process Areas for Software Engineering. Process Areas for Integrated Product and Process Development. Process Areas for Supplier Sourcing. Multiple Disciplines. A Conclusion. Resolving Different Approaches of CMMs. Choosing a Representation. Continuous Representation. Staged Representation. Comparison of the Continuous and Staged Representations. Factors in Your Decision. Why Not Both Representations? Choosing Your Approach to Process Improvement. Scenario 1. Scenario 2. The Advantages of CMMI. 2. Process Area Components. Required, Expected, and Informative Components. Required Components. Expected Components. Informative Components. Components Associated with Part Two. Process Areas. Purpose Statements. Introductory Notes. Related Process Areas. Specific Goals. Generic Goals. Practice-to-Goal Relationship Tables. Specific Practices. Typical Work Products. Subpractices. Generic Practices. Generic Practice Elaborations. Supporting Informative Components. Notes. Examples. Discipline Amplifications. References. Numbering Scheme. Typographical Conventions. Representation-Specific Content. Discipline-Specific Content. 3. Process Institutionalization. Overview. Process Institutionalization. Performed Process. Managed Process. Defined Process. Quantitatively Managed Process. Optimizing Process. Relationships among Processes. Generic Goals and Generic Practices. GG 1 Achieve Specific Goals. GG 2 Institutionalize a Managed Process. GG 3 Institutionalize a Defined Process. GG 4 Institutionalize a Quantitatively Managed Process GG 5 Institutionalize an Optimizing Process. Applying Generic Practices. Process Areas That Support Generic Practices. 4. Relationships among Process Areas. Four Categories of CMMI Process Areas. Process Management. Fundamental Process Management Process Areas. Progressive Process Management Process Areas. Project Management. Fundamental Project Management Process Areas. Progressive Project Management Process Areas. Engineering. Engineering Process Areas and Recursion. Support. Fundamental Support Process Areas. Progressive Support Process Areas. 5. Tying It All Together.