2 Process Areas By Category
50 n Interpreting the CMMI
Integration process areas. The continuous representation allows this approach to
take place.
One approach to take in selecting which representation to use is to consider
two questions:
How much experience does your organization have with process improvement?
Why? Because we believe that the continuous representation requires a
higher level of process improvement understanding than the staged representation.
The staged representation embeds process area decisions that an
inexperienced organization may not be prepared to make. For example, an
organization just beginning process improvement usually has little idea as
to where to start. The staged representation tells you to begin at the beginning
??”Maturity Level 2??”and after attaining that level, continue to the
next??”Maturity Level 3. And so on. Within those levels are the process areas
to include in your process improvement strategy. So, when just beginning,
an organization may state, ???We will begin with Maturity Level 2 which
means satisfying the goals for all of the process areas in Maturity Level 2.
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