Capability Maturity Model Integration

Capability Maturity Model Integration is a process level improvement training and appraisal program used to guide organizations in improving their processes across projects, divisions or an entire organization. It was created at Carnegie Mellon University by a group drawn from industry, government and the Software Engineering Institute, sponsored chiefly by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the National Defense Industrial Association, evolving out of the earlier Capability Maturity Model developed between 1987 and 1997. CMMI defines five progressive maturity levels for an organization processes, from Initial, where processes are unpredictable, through Managed, Defined and Quantitatively Managed, up to Optimizing, where improvement is continuous. It is used especially in United States government contracting, particularly for software development work, and the most recent version, CMMI 3.0, was published in 2023 and is administered by the CMMI Institute, now part of ISACA. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/