Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition

Appendix F. Requirements Management in the SEI-CMM and within ISO 9000:2000

Requirements Management in the SEI-CMM

In November 1986, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie-Mellon University began developing a process maturity framework to help developers improve their software process. In September 1987, the SEI released a brief description of the process maturity framework, later amplified in Humphrey's Managing the Software Process [1989]. By 1991, this framework had evolved into what has become known as version 1.0 of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). In 1993, version 1.1 of the CMM was released [SEI 1993]. Version 1.1 defines five levels of software maturity for an organization and provides a framework for moving from one level ...