Capability Maturity Model Of Software. Paulk University of Texas at Dallas Bill Curtis CAST. It was developed as a result of a study financed by the US Air Force as a way to evaluate the work of subcontractors.
Administered by the CMMI Institute a subsidiary of ISACA it was developed at Carnegie Mellon University CMU. Capability Maturity Model Integration CMMI is a process level improvement training and appraisal program. CMU claims CMMI can be used to guide.
It is a methodology used to develop and refine an organizations software development process.
The model describes a five-level evolutionary path of increasingly organized and systematically more mature processes. Capability Maturity Model is used as a benchmark to measure the maturity of an organizations software process. 1 The CMM adopted the opposite of the quick-fix silver b ullet philosophy. Capability Maturity Model Integrated CMMI CMMI is the successor to CMM and combines a number of maturity models into one integrated capability maturity model.