The interesting point to make here is that the staged representation is really
continuous; and the continuous representation is really staged. In other words,
because of all the interdependencies among the process areas and relationships that
must be met among the generic goals and practices, everything is related to everything
else. For example, in the staged representation, you cannot really plan your
project in Project Planning (Level 2) if you haven??™t already begun to manage your
requirements in Requirements Management (Level 2). So Requirements Management
feeds into Project Planning. How can you manage requirements (Requirements
Management Level 2) if you haven??™t defined them in some way, shape, or
form yet (Requirements Development Level 3)? How can you effectively start a
process improvement program if you don??™t set up a group of people and follow the
guidelines in Organizational Process Focus (Maturity Level 3)? Yet, that is Level
3, and the organization is just starting its process improvement program, so the
organization is at Level 1.
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