TABLE OF CONTENTS CMMI is an acronym (it is not a four-letter word). The acronym stands for Capability Maturity Model Integration [**SM]. Some people would say the CMMI is a model, while others would describe it as a set of models. But most will agree that the CMMI is a merger of process improvement models for systems engineering, software engineering, hardware engineering, and integrated teams.
Some of the goals of the CMMI are to provide a common vocabulary across the set of models and to provide clarification on how these areas interrelate. The integrated model has both a continuous and staged perspective.
[* ]CMMI is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.
[**SM]SM Capability Maturity Model Integration, and SCAMPI are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University.
We wrote this book because we were tired of explaining the same things over and over and over again, and tired of fighting the same battles over and over and over again. Sometimes, the people we were explaining concepts and features of process improvement to were nice; but frankly, many times they were not. Whenever change might be introduced into an organization, most people feel threatened and act accordingly. They are afraid of losing what power and control they may have over their work lives and afraid of...
