Can any one give me the detailed information about CMMI level?

thnx in advance

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes. It can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. CMMI helps integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes.

CMMI is advanced to CMM .CMM has 18 KPA's (Key Process Areas) where CMMI has 22 KPAs

hi bhavana capability maturity model integration is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes. Cmmi is the successor of the cmm or software cmm. The goal of the cmmi project is to improve the usability of maturity models by integrating many different models into one framework. Cmmi helps integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide a point of reference for appraising current processes. There are no levels in cmmi but there are 22 key process areas in cmmi regards, ganesan

hi i would like to know what are the 18 KPA's(key process areas) and the 24 KPA's

Hi All ,

The CMMI level is an interesting concept for this discussion.thanks those whoever initiated this thread.

The key process areas is hard to discuss as a conversation, you may wonder, if you were aware of diploma in software capability maturity model undertaken by indian institute of management & technology.

Anyway let me try to brief you the concept on KPA there are five maturity model which provide top level structure of the CMM.Each maturity level is decomposed into several key process areas that indicate where the organisation should focus to improve its software process.

Each process area identifies a cluster of related activities that when performed collectively achieve a set of goals enhancing process capability.

key process areas at level 1 :

The software process is amorphous entity a black box and visibility into project's processes is limited.staging of activities are poorly developed at this level.

key process areas at level 2:

key process area at this level focus on software project's concerns related to establishing basic project management controls.

key process areas at level 3: at this level address both project and organisational issues,as the organisation establishes an infrastructure that institutionalizes effective software engineering and management processes across all projects.

key process area at level 4: at this key level focus on establishing a quantitative understanding of both the software process and the software products being built.

key process areas at level 5: this level cover the issues that both the organisation and the projects must address to implement continuous and measurable software process improvements all of the above kpa's can be explained in detail probably can be published as a book that would tell you 18 and 22 kpa's.

If you google it you could find lot of them.

There is separate forum for cmm : cmm / cmmi capability maturity model user group

some of cmmi certified companies :

The david consulting group (dcg), an SEI CMMI approved
Pragmatics is CMMI level 4 certified
Indicus software cmmi level 3 certified
Mitsue-links achieves cmmi level 2 first in the japanese web industry
Espire infolabs cmmi level 5 certified

cmm is like an ocean where it never ends ,you can keep learning....

Hope these helped you

Happy learning,
sridevi chitthu

Thanks for giving a lot information about CMMI.

Hi Peeyush jain,

Nice to meet you all in Forum,Thank for wonderful thread discussed.

Thanks,
Sridevichitthu

CMM is a reference model in a specified discipline for e.g. Systems Engineering CMM, Software CMM, People CMM, Software Acquisition CMM etc. But they were difficult to integrate as and when needed. So the CMMI evolved as a more matured set of guidelines and was built combining the best components of individual disciplines of CMM(Software CMM, People CMM etc).

Initial :Level company
Repeate :Level 2 company
defined: Level 3 company.
managed: Level 4 company.
optimised: Level 5 company.