3 representation Selection Matrix
52 n Interpreting the CMMI
was too hard for us to do. We didn??™t have the money. We didn??™t have the people.
We didn??™t have the time before the appraisal team came in. It is inconvenient for us
to do what the CMMI says.??? These are not good justifications for not doing something
described in the model.
There is also the concept of Equivalent Staging. What is Equivalent Staging? It
is an attempt to match maturity levels in the staged representation to capability levels
in the continuous representation. The levels compared are called Target Staging.
Target Staging is a sequence of targeted process areas that describe the path of process
improvement the organization will take. Care should be taken to ensure that
dependencies between the generic practices and process areas are implemented.
This is where the organization documents the process areas it will focus on, justifies
this approach, and tracks the process areas back to business objectives. Table 4.4
shows the Equivalent Staging between maturity levels (as indicated in column ML)
and capability levels (as indicated in columns CL1 through CL5).
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