Agile Project Management with Scrum

Appendix E. Capability Maturity Model (CMM)

CMM is a framework that describes practices that an organization employs in developing software. CMM consists of five levels, numbered 1 through 5. Level 1 means that the organization doesn’t have any defined, repeatable, or improvable approach to building software; basically, developers hack their way to a solution. At level 5, an organization has a defined, repeatable, and improvable set of practices for developing software. Level 1 is considered an immature organization; level 5 is considered a mature organization. At each level, the practices that should be employed are defined as key practice areas (KPAs). Bill Curtis and Mark Paulk from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon ...