CMMI® and Six Sigma: Partners in Process Improvement

Chapter 4

Multimodel Process Improvement: The Value Proposition

Numerous domain-specific models, standards, and technologies are available to software and systems engineering organizations. But implementing multiple initiatives simultaneously, while not uncommon, is not necessarily easy.

Because software engineering is a relatively young discipline, as is the systems engineering of software-intensive systems as we know them today, the role of models and standards is critical. Each model or standard provides collective community experience for the adopting organization to use and allows the organization to focus on its product and business rather ...