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The table below provides more detail on each of the process areas for each of the CMMI maturity levels (source CMMI-SE/SW/IPPD/SS, v1.1 Staged Representation).

 

Note that for each process area there are a range of specific and generic practices (things you need to do). Hence the CMMI is very specific and practical regarding what needs to happen to make a stepped-up performance improvement. For an example of Specific Practices for requirements management, see THE level 2 hurdle.

 

CMMI
Level

KPA

Key Process Area

Comment

2

 

Level 2 - Managed

At maturity level 2, the projects of the organization have ensured that requirements are managed and that processes are planned, performed, measured, and controlled. The process discipline reflected by maturity level 2 helps to ensure that existing practices are retained during times of stress. When these practices are in place, projects are performed and managed according to their documented plans.

2

RQM

Requirements Management

The purpose of Requirements Management is to manage the requirements of the project's products and product components and to identify inconsistencies between those requirements and the project's plans and work products.

2

PP

Project Planning

The purpose of Project Planning is to establish and maintain plans that define project activities.

2

PMC

Project Monitoring and Control

The purpose of Project Monitoring and Control is to provide an understanding of the project's progress so that appropriate corrective actions can be taken when the project's performance deviates significantly from the plan.

2

SAM

Supplier Agreement Management

The purpose of Supplier Agreement Management is to manage the acquisition of products from suppliers for which there exists a formal agreement.

2

MA

Measurement and Analysis

The purpose of Measurement and Analysis is to develop and sustain a measurement capability that is used to support management information needs.

2

PPQA

Process and Product Quality Assurance

The purpose of Process and Product Quality Assurance is to provide staff and management with objective insight into processes and associated work products.

2

CM

Configuration Management

The purpose of Configuration Management is to establish and maintain the integrity of work products using configuration identification, configuration control, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits.

3

 

Level 3 - Defined

At maturity level 3, processes are well characterized and understood, and are described in standards, procedures, tools, and methods. The organization's set of standard processes, is established and improved over time. These standard processes are used to establish consistency across the organization. Projects establish their defined processes by tailoring the organization's set of standard processes according to tailoring guidelines.

3

RD

Requirements Development

The purpose of Requirements Development is to produce and analyze customer, product, and product-component requirements.

3

TS

Technical Solution

The purpose of Technical Solution is to design, develop, and implement solutions to requirements. Solutions, designs, and implementations encompass products, product components, and product-related life-cycle processes either singly or in combinations as appropriate.

3

PI

Product Integration

The purpose of Product Integration is to assemble the product from the product components, ensure that the product, as integrated, functions properly, and deliver the product.

3

VER

Verification

The purpose of Verification is to ensure that selected work products meet their specified requirements.

3

VAL

Validation

The purpose of Validation is to demonstrate that a product or product component fulfils its intended use when placed in its intended environment.

3

OPF

Organizational Process Focus

The purpose of Organizational Process Focus is to plan and implement organizational process improvement based on a thorough understanding of the current strengths and weaknesses of the organization's processes and process assets.

3

OPD

Organizational Process Definition

The purpose of Organizational Process Definition is to establish and maintain a usable set of organizational process assets.

3

OT

Organizational Training

The purpose of Organizational Training is to develop the skills and knowledge of people so they can perform their roles effectively and efficiently.

3

RSKM

Risk Management

The purpose of Risk Management is to identify potential problems before they occur, so that risk-handling activities may be planned and invoked as needed across the life of the product or project to mitigate adverse impacts on achieving objectives.

3

DAR

Decision Analysis and Resolution

The purpose of Decision Analysis and Resolution is to analyze possible decisions using a formal evaluation process that evaluates identified alternatives against established criteria. The Decision Analysis and Resolution process area supports all the process areas by providing a formal evaluation process that ensures that alternatives are compared and the best one is selected to accomplish the goals of the process areas.

3

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Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) environment

Covers interactions of the Integrated Project Management (IPM), the Integrated Teaming (IT) and Organizational Environment for Integration (OEI). If you are not using a model that includes IPPD you may ignore this material.

3

IPM

Integrated Project Management

The purpose of Integrated Project Management is to establish and manage the project and the involvement of the relevant stakeholders according to an integrated and defined process that is tailored from the organization's set of standard processes.

3

IT

Integrated Teaming

The purpose of Integrated Product Teaming is to form and sustain an integrated team for the development of work products. Notes: The following characteristics distinguish an integrated team: Team members include empowered representatives from both technical and business functional organizations that have decision-making authority and the responsibility to act for their respective organizations.

3

ISM

Integrated Supplier Management

The purpose of Integrated Supplier Management is to proactively identify sources of products that may be used to satisfy the project’s requirements and to manage selected suppliers while maintaining a cooperative project-supplier relationship.

Notes: Designed for situations in which projects use suppliers to perform functions that are critical to the success of the project.

3

OEI

Organizational Environment for Integration

The purpose of Organizational Environment for Integration is to provide an Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) infrastructure and manage people for integration. Notes: An infrastructure that maximizes the productivity and collaboration of people; the process is institutionalised.

4

 

Level 4 - Quantitatively Managed

At maturity level 4, Quantitative objectives for quality and process performance are established and used as criteria in managing processes. Quantitative objectives are based on the needs of the customer, end users, organization, and process implementers. Quality and process performance are understood in statistical terms and are managed throughout the life of the processes.

4

OPP

Organizational Process Performance

The purpose of Organizational Process Performance is to establish and maintain a quantitative understanding of the performance of the organization's set of standard processes in support of quality and process-performance objectives, and to provide the process performance data, baselines, and models to quantitatively manage the organization's projects.

4

QPM

Quantitative Project Management

The purpose of the Quantitative Project Management process area is to quantitatively manage the project's defined process to achieve the project's established quality and process-performance objectives.

5

 

Level 5 - Optimizing

Maturity level 5 focuses on continually improving process performance. Processes are continually improved based on a quantitative understanding of the common causes of variation inherent in processes. The effects of deployed process improvements are measured and evaluated against the quantitative process-improvement objectives.

5

OID

Organizational Innovation and Deployment

The purpose of Organizational Innovation and Deployment is to select and deploy incremental and innovative improvements that measurably improve the organization's processes and technologies. The improvements support the organization's quality and process-performance objectives as derived from the organization's business objectives.

5

CAR

Causal Analysis and Resolution

The purpose of Causal Analysis and Resolution is to identify causes of defects and other problems and take action to prevent them from occurring in the future.

 

 

 

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