CMM in an Agile World

by Ken Schwaber

The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a framework that describes the practices that an organization employs in developing software. The CMM consists of five levels. An organization at Level 1 doesn't have any defined, repeatable, or improvable approach to building software; basically, it hacks its way to a solution. An organization at Level 5 has a defined, repeatable, and improvable set of practices for developing software. A Level 1 organization is considered immature; a Level 5 organization is considered mature. At each level, the practices that should be employed are defined as key practice areas (KPAs). Bill Curtis and Mark Paulk from the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University developed CMM in the early 1990s.

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CMM in an Agile World 16 October 2003