CMMI for Development: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement, Third Edition

Footnotes

Preface

1. The CMMI Framework is the basic structure that organizes CMMI components and combines them into CMMI constellations and models.

2. A constellation is a collection of CMMI components that are used to construct models, training materials, and appraisal related documents for an area of interest (e.g., development, acquisition, services).

3. An appraisal is an examination of one or more processes by a trained team of professionals using a reference model (e.g., CMMI-DEV) as the basis for determining strengths and weaknesses.

4. A process area is a cluster of related practices in an area that, when implemented collectively, satisfies a set of goals considered important for making improvement in that area. This concept is covered ...