CMMI for Services: Guidelines for Superior Service

Quantitative Project Management

A Project Management Process Area at Maturity Level 4

Purpose

The purpose of Quantitative Project Management (QPM) is to quantitatively manage the project’s defined process to achieve the project’s established quality and process-performance objectives.

In Other Words

QPM is about managing service to quantitative process and performance objectives.

Introductory Notes

The Quantitative Project Management process area involves the following activities:

• Establishing and maintaining the project’s quality and process-performance objectives

• Identifying suitable subprocesses that compose the project’s defined process based on historical stability and capability data found in process-performance baselines or models ...