Chapter 3. Tying It All Together

Now that you have been introduced to the components of CMMI models, you need to understand how they all fit together to meet your process improvement needs [Dymond 2004]. In this chapter, we introduce the concept of levels and show how the process areas are organized and used. To do this, we need to revisit the discussion that began in Chapter 1.

Understanding Levels

Levels are used in CMMI to describe an evolutionary path recommended for an organization that wants to improve the processes it uses to develop and maintain its products and services. Levels can also be the outcome of the rating activity of appraisals.[1] Appraisals can be performed for organizations that comprise entire (usually small) companies, or ...

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