This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.

CMMI® (Capability Maturity Model® Integration) describes best practices for the development and maintenance of products and services across their entire lifecycle. By integrating essential bodies of knowledge, CMMI provides a single, comprehensive framework for organizations to assess their development and maintenance processes, implement improvements, and measure progress.

This book is a definitive reference for the most current release of CMMI (version 1.2). In the new edition, the authors have added tips, hints, and cross-references in the margins (in color) throughout the process areas to help you better understand, apply, and find more information about the content of the process areas. The book also now includes brief, 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 to a services organization. Whether you are new to CMMI or familiar with an earlier version, if you need to know about, evaluate, or put the latest version of CMMI into practice, this book is an essential resource.

The book 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 as well as paths to the adoption and use of CMMI for process improvement and benchmarking.

Part II, the bulk of the book, details the generic goals and practices and the twenty-two process areas now comprising CMMI. The process areas are organized alphabetically by acronym for easy look-up. Each chapter includes goals, best practices, and examples for a particular process area. The two CMMI representations are described so that you will easily see their similarities and differences and thereby be better able to choose the right approach for your organization.

Part III contains several useful resources, including CMMI-related references, acronym definitions, a glossary of terms, and an index.

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Do not waste your time on CMMI etc. - 2008-07-09
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Had to buy this book for CS course at the university. Zero usefulness. All the info is available online.
By the way, if you are not in the business of CMM or apraisals, curb your curiosity - it is nowhere near Computer Science or software engineering, it's about basic management. Tedious and annoying stuff.

You have to know quite a bit to understand the material - 2009-10-30
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I have been implementing high quality processes that have been made CMM/CMMI compliant to pass the appraisal process. But whenever I had to read the CMMI model as written in any of its forms, it was a challenge. There is a lot of material that causes quite a bit of confusion. The Software Engineering Institute admits that they redefine common words to suit their purposes, supposedly to make the model easier to understand but anytime you change the meaning of common words, it injects confusion. As it stands it is a bloated book with many examples provided but without any real additional explanation given. For example, each process area will list typical work products but there is nothing to explain what they really are, which is not very helpful when you are trying to implement the model. One might start chasing the goose that laid the golden egg to find that the typical example is no longer very typical and would not fit your environment or organizational culture. There are some good tidbits. For example, at the end of a case study it says don't create processes first, just do the work and worry about compliance last. That is very sound advice, but does one need to wade through 700 pages to find it? The book would benefit from making it more approachable to beginners.

Great condition - 2009-05-28
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Received the book on time and in great condition - very satisfied with service and product.

WARNING - 2009-03-10
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The SEI CMM could have evolved in a much more helpful direction. Instead, it has regressed toward the discredited morass of CI, TQM, and ISO gibberish. This book, in particular, is written at an exquisitely refined level of useless abstraction. The goals and aspirations are important, but the level of practical guidance here is nil. Practical guidance is exactly what is needed, and is exactly what is missing. The analysis and empirical evaluation of processes are technically challenging and require sophisticated professional staff -- but these core technical challenges are thrown back to the client organization with an irresponsible "Good luck!" I hope the next generation of CI/TQM/ISO/CMMI will finally get real and get serious.

CMMI V1.2 2nd Edition - 2008-11-11
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The CMMI v1.2 Model Book is excellent! It includes all the practices which the SEI has determined should be in an IT Development Shop. The SEI is a federally funded (DoD) research institute at Carnegie Mellon Univ - therefore they have to share the research with citizens.

Auditing/improving your IT shop against the model is an internationally accepted path to technology process improvement for IT development. Most federal contracts for IT require that the vendor rate Maturity Level 3 against the CMMI v1.2 model in order to bid.

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