CMMI V3.0 helps organizations quickly understand their current level of capability and performance in the context of their own business objectives and compared to similar organizations.
CMM3.0 Adoption and Transition Guidance:
Learn: Learn how CMMI will benefit the organization
Establish Objectives: Develop and Communicate business performance and improvement objectives.
Analyze: Map current organizational processes to the CMMI
Develop Action Plan: Develop, keep, updated and follow an improvement plan to get from the current state to the desired state.
Deploy improvements: Deploy and follow updated organizational processes and measure performance.
Performance Capability built in at every level of the model will help organizations
Understand performance needs
Establish performance goals
Track measure and achieve those goals
Improve the overall value for CMMI appraisals and lower time, effort and cost of the appraisals process.
New appraisals method intended to improve confidence and reliability of results and to lower total life cycle costs of appraisals by decreasing the appraisals by decreasing the appraisals preparation for the appraised organization.
Organization can extend the validity of benchmark appraisals through the lighert-weight sustainment appraisal.
The CMMI3.0 Model is a container of practice area and composed of five components
VIEW : Selection of a set of model components important to and selected by the end user or predefined by the CMMI Institute
CMMI Development
CMMI Services
CMMI Supplier Management
CMMI Planning and Managing work capability area
PRACTICE AREA: A collection of Similar practices that together achieve the defined intent, value, and required information described in the practice area.
PRACTICE GROUP: Organization structure for practices with in a practice area to:
Aid understanding and adoption
Provide a path for performance improvement
PRACTICE: A practice consists of two parts
1. Required information: Information required to understand the full intent and value of the practice, which includes the practice statement , the value statement and all the additional required information between it and the explanatory information in the practice.
2. Required information: Information required to understand the full intent and value of the practice, which includes the practice statement , the value statement and all the additional required information between it and the explanatory information in the practice.
INFORMATION MATERIAL : Includes every thing else in the model except the required information in the practices. As such explanatory information in practices is part of the information material. Informative material includes the overview and appendices.