A GUIDE TO THE CMM: Understanding the Capability Maturity Model for Software by Kenneth M. Dymond
     with Foreword by Watts S. Humphrey 


--Whether you evaluate software processes or improve them, this GUIDE should help you to properly use the CMM.
                                   ...from the Foreword by Watts S. Humphrey
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A GUIDE TO THE CMM is an easy-to-use handbook to help you interpret the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model for Software or the CMM, the widely-used standard for implementing your software process for continuous improvement. The CMM is written in abstract terms in order to apply to the most general cases of software practice. The GUIDE makes the CMM much more accessible to those who wish to understand and study its concepts. The GUIDE's unique, informal pictograms and clear discussions help you synthesize over 350 pages of the CMM's complex material on 316 software practices.

 A Guide to the CMM Table of Contents

 

Chapter 2. Maturity Level 2: The Repeatable Process


Requirements Management
Special topic: Where requirements originate
Software Project Planning
Project Tracking and Oversight
Special Topic: Commitment Process
Software Quality Assurance
Software Configuration Management
Software Subcontract Management
Summary View: Process Assets at Level 2
Summary View: Relationships among Level 2 KPAs
Exercises: Level 2

Chapter 3. Maturity Level 3: The Defined Process


Organization Process Focus
Organization Process Definition
Training Program
Integrated Software Management
Software Product Engineering
Intergroup Coordination
Peer Reviews
Summary View: Process Assets at Level 3
Summary View: Relationships among Level 3 KPAs
Exercises: Level 3

Chapter 4. Maturity Level 4: The Managed Process


Quantitative Process Management
Software Quality Management
Summary View: Process Assets at Level 4
Summary View: Relationships among Level 4 KPAs
Exercises: Level 4

Chapter 5. Maturity Level 5: The Optimizing Process


Defect Prevention
Technology Change Management
Process Change Management
Summary View: Process Assets from Level 5
Summary View: Relationships among Level 5 KPAs
Exercises: Level 5

Appendix A: Glossary of pictogram symbols

Appendix B: Bibliography

Back cover flap: Glossary of Acronyms and Abbreviations

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: A recognized authority on process improvement
methods and the Capability Maturity Model, Ken Dymond worked with
Watts Humphrey (author of MANAGING THE SOFTWARE PROCESS )
and other members of the SEI's Process Program developing the SEI's
assessment method now in use worldwide. He also led SEI's Industry
Risk Management project and brought the collaborative features of process
assessment to systematic risk identification.

With over 27 years in software engineering, process improvement, risk
assessment, training and action planning, Mr. Dymond has provided process
assessment and support for government agencies and major companies
in North America, Europe, Asia and the Pacific Rim. He has given talks and
public tutorials on the CMM, process improvement and technology transfer on
four continents, and is a member of the Industry Advisory Board for
IEEE Software magazine. He holds a master's degree in computer
science from George Washington University.

Mr. Dymond has been using the CMM, in all its forms, since 1988 in assessments
and with action planning groups and is the principal author and co-developer of
Process Transition International's CMM Workshop: "Using and Interpreting the Capability
Maturity Model." (For information about the workshop click here.)
 

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