CMMI: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement (Sei Series in Software Engineering) - hardcover

CMMI(R) (Capability Maturity Model(R) Integration) describes best practices for the development and maintenance of products and services across their entire life cycle. By integrating essential bodies of knowledge, such as software engineering, systems engineering, and acquisition, CMMI provides a single, comprehensive framework for organizations to assess their development and maintenance processes, implement improvements, and measure progress. This book is the definitive reference for the most current release of CMMI. As before, it comprises a single source for all CMMI model information. For this new edition, hints, tips, and cross-references have been added in the margins (in color) to help readers understand and implement the model successfully. The book also now includes brief but insightful perspectives on CMMI written by people influential in the model's creation, development, and transition. A new case study from Raytheon illustrates a real-world application of the model. Whether you are new to CMMI or familiar with an earlier version, if you need to know about, evaluate, or put its latest version into practice, this book will be an essential resource. The book (as the model itself) is divided into three parts. Part I offers the broad view of CMMI, beginning with basic concepts of process improvement. It describes the process areas, their components, and their relationships to each other. It explains the model's two representations: the continuous representation, which allows an organization to improve using selected process areas at different rates, and the staged representation, which enables organizations to follow a predefined and proven improvement path usingmultiple process areas. Part II, the bulk of the book, details the 22 process areas now covered by CMMI, organized alphabetically by acronym for easy look-up. Each chapter includes goals, best practices, and examples for a particular process area. The two CMMI representation