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| Figure 1-1 | A holistic view of the role of process | 5 |
| Figure 2-1 | IDEAL cycle | 14 |
| Figure 2-2 | Summary of Six Sigma DMAIC cycle | 16 |
| Figure 2-3 | Quality Improvement Paradigm | 17 |
| Figure 2-4 | A Decision-based Lifecycle for Improvement | 19 |
| Figure 2-5 | Interoperable process improvement with CMMI as the unifying reference | 25 |
| Figure 3-1 | Product versus process development phases | 33 |
| Figure 4-1 | The work areas of an organization supported by CMMI | 47 |
| Figure 4-2 | Notional CMMI Capability Profile | 54 |
| Figure 4-3 | Target Capability Profile | 55 |
| Figure 5-1 | Points-of-interest view | 66 |
| Figure 5-2 | Navigational routing | 67 |
| Figure 5-3 | Demographic view | 68 |
| Figure 5-4 | Decision/Implementation and Failure/Success modes | 69 |
| Figure 5-5 | DLI | 70 |
| Figure 5-6 | Adoption commitment curve | 71 |
| Figure 5-7 | Archetypal death of cartoons (adapted from Garcia and Presson, “Beyond Death by Slides” tutorial) | 87 |
| Figure 7-1 | SURVIVAL | 104 |
| Figure 8-1 | Solution Selling’s Pain-Impact-Vision Cycle | 123 |
| Figure 8-2 | Buyer’s Risk Cycle | 126 |
| Figure 8-3 | Graphical summary of the Satir Change Model | 128 |
| Figure 9-1 | RFA bar chart showing individual response variations | 139 |
| Figure 9-2 | Radar-chart summary of CMMI Readiness and Fit Analysis | 140 |
| Figure 12-1 | Product versus process development phases | 180 |
| Figure 12-2 | Example swim-lane diagram | 187 |
| Figure 13-1 | Consulting role grid | 198 |
| Figure 13-2 | Sample role questions | 199 |
| Figure 13-3 | Flow chart of Satir Change Model | 200 |
| Figure 13-4 | What Chaos is like | 201 |
| Figure 13-5 | Beginnings of a CMMI value network | 204 |
| Figure 13-6 | Adoption Commitment Curve | 205 |
| Figure 13-7 | Satir model plus Adoption Commitment Curve | 206 |
| Figure 15-1 | RFA form | 236 |
| Figure 15-2 | One-Hour Process Description summary diagram | 239 |
| Figure 15-3 | Process description cycles | 243 |
| Figure 15-4 | Conceptual view of infusion | 246 |
| Figure 15-5 | Example Level of Use profile | 248 |
| Figure 15-6 | Conceptual view of diffusion | 252 |
| Figure 15-7 | After the all-hands meeting | 253 |
| Figure 15-8 | Basic classes for key roles held | 253 |
| Figure 15-9 | Several pilots have started | 254 |
| Figure 15-10 | Widespread adoption has begun | 255 |
| Figure 15-11 | Starting to see Institutionalization | 256 |
| Figure 15-12 | Moving into widespread use | 256 |
| Figure 15-13 | Improvement is the new status quo! | 257 |
| Figure 15-14 | Example “body” for CSI exercise | 263 |
| Figure 15-15 | Archetypal death cartoons (adapted from Garcia and Presson’s “Beyond Death by Slides” tutorial) | 265 |