Appraisals, assessments, and evaluations
are by no means a new subject. There are a number of appraisal methods* that
have been developed to measure and evaluate an organization against the family of
Capability Maturity Models (CMMs) in addition to other models and standards. A
community of appraisers, assessors, and evaluators has grown around these methods.
The CMMI product suite introduces some new concepts, but mostly builds
on the history of these previous methods and the best practices of the assessor and
evaluator community. There are three classes of CMMI Appraisal Methods: Class
A, Class B, and Class C.
The SEI has released three guiding documents for CMMI appraisals:
Appraisal Requirements for CMMI?®, Version 1.2 (ARC, V1.2)??”This technical
report contains the requirements for three classes of appraisal methods Class
A, Class B, and Class C. These requirements are the rules for defining each
class of appraisal method.
Standard CMMI?® Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPISM) A,
Version 1.2: Method Definition Document (MDD)??”This handbook contains
* Not all these methods are called appraisals.
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