CMM stands for the Capability Maturity Model. Most folks nowadays call
it the CMM for Software. The reason for this appellation is that after the CMM
was developed, several more CMMs relating to different areas were generated (e.g.,
Systems Engineering, Acquisition). The CMM was created to help manage organizations
that develop software. The CMM was created by analyzing the activities of
highly functioning software organizations; that is, those organizations that consistently
delivered software systems to their customers on time, within the budget, and
that actually worked. These activities became the 316 key practices in the CMM,
and the practices themselves were grouped into categories called key process areas.
There are 18 key process areas that focus on the best practices found among the
organizations reviewed. The key process areas concentrate on such things as managing
requirements, managing changes, creating project plans, tracking estimates
against actuals, implementing quality assurance activities, instituting peer reviews,
and training personnel in processes related to their job duties.
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