1. CMMI

2. Reference CMMI: Guidelines For Process Integration And Product Improvement by Mary Beth Chrissis, Mike Konrad, Sandy Schrum ISBN 0-321-15496-7 Copyright 2003 by Pearson Education, Inc. Part of the SEI Series in Software Engineering of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute Addison-Wesley

3. Three critical dimensions held together by processes Procedures and methods define the relationship of tasks Tools and equipment People with skills, training, and motivation Process

4. Staged or continuous? Staged: predefined sets of process areas define an improvement path for an organization. Defines maturity levels. Continuous: organization selects specific process area to improve. Capability levels used to characterize improvement related to individual process areas CMMI supports both representations