Established in 1986 by the Software Engineering Institute, The Capability Maturity Model describes practices and processes around application development, and has become a useful framework for improving software development processes and application quality. The CMM helps organizations improve along an evolutionary path, growing from an ad hoc, chaotic environment toward mature, disciplined processes.
The CMM defines five stages of organizational maturity with regards to software development. Predictability, effectiveness, and control of an organizations software process improve as the organization move up these five levels.
Recently, an enhancement to the CMM model was created – Capability Maturity Model Integration (or CMMI) – which was designed to align development efforts more closely with business requirements.
CMMI best practices aim to achieve the following:
- more clearly link management and engineering activities to their business objectives.
- expand visibility into product life cycle and engineering activities to ensure that products and services meet customer expectations.
- incorporate best practices
- address additional organizational functions critical to their products and services.
SageRight’s CMMI-focused services help organizations develop a custom, realistic process improvement plan. By working with SageRight, organizations can reduce rework, improve quality, schedule and budget performance, and improve customer satisfaction by delivering on customer demands on time and on budget.
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