What is CMMI?Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes. It can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. CMMI helps integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes. CMMI is being adopted worldwide, including North America, Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and Africa.* Benefits of Process ImprovementThe following are some of the benefits and business reasons for implementing process improvement:- The quality of a system is highly influenced by the quality of the process used to acquire, develop, and maintain it.
- Process improvement increases product and service quality as organizations apply it to achieve their business objectives.
- Process improvement objectives are aligned with business objectives.*
CMMI BenefitsThe CMMI Product Suite is at the forefront of process improvement because it provides the latest best practices for product and service development and maintenance. The CMMI models improve the best practices of previous models in many important ways. CMMI best practices enable organizations to do the following: - more explicitly link management and engineering activities to their business objectives
- expand the scope of and visibility into the product lifecycle and engineering activities to ensure that the product or service meets customer expectations
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- incorporate lessons learned from additional areas of best practice (e.g., measurement, risk management, and supplier management)
- implement more robust high-maturity practices
- address additional organizational functions critical to their products and services
- more fully comply with relevant ISO standards*
BrownIT and CMMIBrownIT has implemented CMMI as a process improvement model to improve our organizational maturity and process capabilities. We successfully completed a SCAMPI A appraisal at CMMI Level 2 in July of 2008. We did this to continue winning customer trust, increasing software reliability, increasing collaboration, lowering cost, and increasing ROI. BrownIT is committed to continually improving its program management and project lifecycle processes to provide cost-effective, high-quality product & services to our clients. *These portions of text were used with permission from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/  Get a pdf of this page
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