CMMI Start --General Concept

CMMI Start --General Concept

CMMI = Capability Mature Model Integration

1. CMMI Structure (Model)

Supplement of the above module.

Typical Work Products:  Typical Work Products are the output of Specific Practices and the Generic Practices. For example, in the requirement management Process Area, there are multiple Specific Practices, requirement study for example. Under the Specific Practices, there are some Typical Work Products, such as definition the channel of requirement delivery, definition the entry and exit criteria of requirement study.

Sub-practices: Sub-practices is the detailed description to provide the guideline for interpreting Specific and Generic practices.

2. Terminology Abbreviation
  PA: Process Area
  SG: Specific Goal
  SP:  Specific Practices
  GG: General Goal
  GP: General Practices
  CO: Commitment to Perform
  AB: Ability to Perform
  DI: Directing Implementation
  VE: Verifying Implementation
  SG n:  n is a number.  Specific Goal is numbered sequentially. SG 1 means the first SG
              in a process area. SG 2 is the second and so on.
  GG n:  n is a number.  The meaning is same as that in SG.
  SP  n.m:  n, m are both numbers. n is mapped to the sequence of the SG.
                m is the sequence of SP itself.
                For example, SP 1.2 means that the Specific Practices is the 2^nd SP under SG 1.
  GP n.m: n,m are both numbers. The means is same as SP.

3. Some useful concept which is confused always

Procedure: A procedure is a specification of the series of actions, acts or operations which have to be executed.

Process: A process is any series of actions or operations viewed as a whole