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A helpful guide to getting CMMI working in your company - 2008-02-20
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OK, I have purchased 2 books by James Persse on CMM and CMMI.

The first book I bought was "Implementing the Capability Maturity Model"
The second was this one... "Project Management success with CMMI"

I woud like to compare and contrast these 2 books...

Just to start off, my company had no previous CMM experience, and informal project management.

The first book was quite hard work and heavy going. My company is quite small (<50 staff) and I found getting started on CMM to be quite difficult with this book. I found it almost impossible to translate the concepts in this book into actionable tasks in my company.

In contrast, I've had much more success with the second book, and I believe that I have now got CMMI well implemented at Level 3 based on the information in this book.

The book is quite well written, and has a chapter on each of the process areas (as you might expect). However, much more importantly, it has a list of action points for each of the process areas... Without telling you exactly what to do, it gives a good idea of the concepts and objectives of what you should be looking for. I have found this much more practical.

The book is also well organised so that you can focus on any of the process areas, just by starting at that chapter - There's no need to read the whole book before you can start. This again is crucially important, because in my organisation it's necessary to see some quick results, without having to spend months formalising and documenting processes.

This means you can focus on weak areas in your companies project management process, without having to implement every process area from day 1. By example we have focussed on "Measurement and Analaysis" and achieved some "quick wins" by implementing this process in our current development team. This might not be pure CMMI, but it's more practical for smaller companies which don't have the resource to spend months and months on preparation and formalisation.

In summary then, you can use this book to implement some or all of the CMMMI process areas, and you can do this without getting bogged down with CMMI theory!

It's easy to follow and provides directions - 2007-09-05
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PROJECT MANAGEMENT SUCCESS WITH CMMI: SEVEN CMMI PROCESS AREAS shows how to apply CMMI Level 2 to projects, programs, or processes. It's easy to follow and provides directions for implementing and customizing CMMI for any type of product or organization, covering both business and operational needs of project management and offering up not just technical specs, but real-world case studies and examples to support what works and why.

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