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CMMI is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve their performance. CMMI can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. It helps integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes. The benefits you can expect from using CMMI include the following: Your organization's activities are explicitly linked to your business objectives. Your visibility into the organization's activities is increased to help you ensure that your product or service meets the customer's expectations. You learn from new areas of best practice (e.g., measurement, risk) CMMI is being adopted worldwide, including North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and Africa. This kind of response has substantiated the SEI's commitment to CMMI. You can use CMMI in three different areas of interest: Product and service development (CMMI for Development model) Service establishment, management, and delivery (CMMI for Services model) Product and service acquisition (CMMI for Acquisition model) The CMMI Version 1.2 Overview presentation introduces the CMMI concept and can help you make decisions about your process improvement plans. You can also use this presentation to inform others in your organization about CMMI. CMMI models are collections of best practices that you can compare to your organization's best practices and guide improvement to your processes. A formal comparison of a CMMI model to your processes is called an appraisal. The Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) incorporates the best ideas of several process improvement appraisal methods.

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CMMI Version 1.3Plans for the Next Version
The CMMI Steering Group has approved criteria for the next release of the CMMI Product Suite. This column will describe the key ingredients and the plans for release of CMMI Version 1.3. See more library items

CMMI-Based Process Improvement Overview

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