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resistance to this project. Some members of the community felt that they
had been left out of the decision-making process and questioned the wisdom
of abandoning the nearly completed work on CMM ® v2.0. Subsequently,
the SEI and the CMMI ® project did an excellent job of including industry,
government, and academic process improvement stakeholders in the development
and review of the CMMI ® product suite. The CMMI ® product suite
consists of the CMMI ® models, training materials, and the appraisal method.
Table 4.2 shows the chronology of CMMI ® releases.
The SEI has developed a schedule for ‘‘sunsetting,’’ or retiring, the software
CMM ® (Table 4.3). Because many organizations have significant investments
in the CMM ® and CMM ® -based process improvement, there is a need
for a systematic migration from the CMM ® v1.1 for software to the CMMI ® .
To a lesser extent, this is also true for transition from EIA/IS 731 to the
CMMI ® . The software CMM ® v1.1 will no longer be updated.
The CMMI ® is intended to alleviate the problems of using multiple models,
maximize the strengths of each model, and still preserve organizational
investments in legacy process improvements based on the software and
systems engineering CMM ® s. In the following sections we will describe what
is new in the CMMI ® and describe its structure.
Table 4.2
Model
CMMI ® Releases
Date
CMMI ® version 1.0 August 2000
CMMI ® version 1.01 November 2000
CMMI ® version 1.02 December 2000
CMMI ® SE/SW version 1.1 December 2001
CMMI ® SE/SW/IPPD version 1.1 December 2001
CMMI ® SE/SW/IPPD/SS version 1.1 March 2002
CMMI ® SW version 1.1 August 2002
Table 4.3
Activity
CMM ® Sunset Schedule
Date
CMM ® v1.1 training Ends December 2003
CMM ® assessments (CBA-IPI and SCE) are Ends December 2005
recorded by the SEI
CMMI ® appraisals (SCAMPI SM )
Started in 1999. Version 1.1 of the
method was issued in December 2001.