Capability maturity model integration

Capability maturity model integration

A more rigorous version of CMM which is a quality management system used to guide process improvement across a project, division, or an entire organization. Under the CMMI methodology, processes are rated according to their maturity levels, which are defined as: Initial, Repeatable, Defined, Quantitatively Managed, Optimizing.

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optimizing process

Quality management; Capability maturity model integration

A quantitatively managed process that is improved based on an understanding of the common causes of variation inherent in the process. The focus of an optimizing process is on continually improving ...

product requirements

Quality management; Capability maturity model integration

A refinement of the customer requirements into the developers’ language, making implicit requirements into explicit derived requirements. (See also “derived requirements” and “product component ...

organization's measurement repository

Quality management; Capability maturity model integration

A repository used to collect and make available measurement data on processes and work products, particularly as they relate to the organization’s set of standard processes. This repository contains ...

goal

Quality management; Capability maturity model integration

A required CMMI component that can be either a generic goal or a specific goal. When you see the word goal in a CMMI model, it always refers to a model component (e.g., generic goal and specific ...

generic goal

Quality management; Capability maturity model integration

A required model component that describes the characteristics that must be present to institutionalize the processes that implement a process area.

specific goal

Quality management; Capability maturity model integration

A required model component that describes the unique characteristics that must be present to satisfy the process area.

baseline

Quality management; Capability maturity model integration

A set of specifications or work products that has been formally reviewed and agreed on, which thereafter serves as the basis for further development, and which can be changed only through change ...