CMMI,
A Collection of Best Business Practices

Terry Bahill
Systems and Industrial Engineering
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721-0020
terry@sie.arizona.edu
http://www.sie.arizona.edu/sysengr/slides/CMMI.ppt
Copyright © 2003-2004 Bahill

The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a collection of best practices from leading engineering companies. It was written by engineers from industry, U.S. government, and the Software Engineering Institute. The average member had about 21 years of experience from organizations with solid process improvement credentials. It was financed by DoD.

The CMMI Project was formed to build a set of integrated models, establish a framework to enable integration of future models, and create an associated set of appraisal and training products. Source models serving as the starting point for CMMI were SW-CMM (software), EIA 632 (engineering), EIA/IS-731 (systems engineering), and IPD-CMM (integrated product development).

Many technological companies are using CMMI, because it has been shown to improve their products. The U. S. government may require companies responding to RFPs to demonstrate CMMI or equivalent compliance.

This overview was written for engineers. This talk requires a zip disk drive, PowerPoint and a computer projector or an overhead projector. This talk takes one hour.