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Do not bite
off more than you can chew when beginning process improvement efforts. They
tend to mushroom anyway. Start small, like with the project in the earlier example
doing Web-based medical insurance design and coding, and increase your efforts
as necessary.
CMMi Model Structure
The CMMI is structured as follows:
Maturity Levels (staged representation) or Capability Levels (continuous
representation)
Process Areas
Goals??”Generic and Specific
Practices??”Generic and Specific
Figure 3.1 shows the CMMI model components in the staged representation.
Basically, maturity levels organize the process areas. Within the process areas are
generic and specific goals, as well as generic and specific practices. One difference
n n n n
Process Area 1
Maturity Level 2 Maturity Level 3 Maturity Level n ...
Process Area 2 Process Area n ...
Specific
Practices
Generic
Practices
Specific Goals Generic Goals
Figure 3.1 CMMi model components in the staged representation.
32 n Interpreting the CMMI
between CMMI version 1.1 and version 1.


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