Section II: CMMI Process Areas

Summary

Although the CMMI is promoted as having two very different representations, the representations are really more similar than dissimilar. Instituting the practices and subpractices is where the real benefits can be found. There are no new generic goals for Maturity Levels 4 and 5 in the staged representation because the process areas in both levels include the basic tenets of those maturity levels. The continuous representation does have new generic goals because the continuous representation allows the selection of various process areas. Thus, your organization may decide not to select the process areas in Maturity Level 4. If you do that, then the generic goals of the continuous representation have been added to ensure that the basic concepts of statistical control and its application will be met.