Choosing Your Approach to Process Improvement

Now that you know the differences between the two representations, you should be able to decide on the approach that best fits your organization. To use CMMI as intended, you select two things: a set of disciplines and a representation. Unlike the CMMI models on the SEI Web site, this book contains both representations and all of the current disciplines that compose the CMMI Framework. This “complete picture” of the CMMI Framework in Part Two enables you to use exactly what you need as you learn about it. It also allows you to quickly use other information if you decide to change the representation or disciplines that you are using.

In Part Two, markings in the margins indicate when model components are “Staged Only” (apply only when using the staged representation) or “Continuous Only” (apply only when using the continuous representation).