Can i have to-the-point,specific and detailed information and links about CMM,

Dear Sir

Our organisation has been rcommended for ISO 9001:2000 certification. We woud like to go for CMM asssessment - level 5 nine months from now. IS there any restriction on time?

Is there any rule or stipulation that we should go for level 4 and then level 5 ?

If we want to go for level 4, is it possible within 6 months

Can readers enlighten me on this

The correct site is Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (http://www.sei.cmu.edu)

Now that the CMM standards are changing to CMMI I would like to know the names of the persons involved in consulting and assessment for CMMI. I have checked the site - sei.cmm.edu and found only a couple of names in India who are authorised to do the consulting and assessment. May be the details are not updated. May I kindly request the forum members to post the names of other persons in India who does consulting and assessment for CMMI

Does anyone know why the change was made from CMM to CMMI? Was this a 'confusion' issue or did some of the foundations or other aspects change?

CMM dealt only with software. CMMI includes the integration of software with system/hardware. Basically an increase in scope as I understand it. I've only been through some preliminary training on CMMI so far. I do see that it is highly redundant with some areas of ISO/QS/TS. There is a comparison document on the SEI website. If anyone is interested I can find the link.

Tom

Is CMM dead or do both CMM and CMMI co-exist?

Sure - A link to a comparison source would be appreciated!

Is CMM dead or do both CMM and CMMI co-exist?

Sure - A link to a comparison source would be appreciated!
Here goes:
CMM vs. CMMI: from Conventional to Modern Software Management (http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/content/RationalEdge/feb02/ConventionalToModernFeb02.pdf)

Upgrading from SW-CMM to CMMI (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/adoption/upgrading.pdf)

These are from the Carniegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute web site (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/upgrade.html)

Mappings of ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI Version 1.1 (http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/adoption/iso-mapping.html)

Thanks for the links, Atul and Tom!

Any CMMI for software documents/templates required for the formal SCAMPI class A appraisal?

thanks

hello all,
here goes my first contribution to this forum , am a QA eng. in an automotive supplier, currently trying to figure my way into applying CMMI ( causing me an extra addiction to coffee and tylenol),

here goes some books i found very helpful by Addison Wesley publications :
CMMI Distilled: A Practical Introduction to Integrated Process Improvement
CMMI: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
Interpreting the CMMI: A Process Improvement Approach

the sei site remains the reference, i also found one time some DoD cse studies, have to relocate this site....
for software serena merant pro and team tracker package looks not bad ( previously known as merant pvcss )

if anyone out here has written the level 2 procedure (manage) for a staged development thanks for sharing your experience.

i read before someone want to go right away to Lvl 5, sounds a bit too ambitious going from LvL 1 to 5 in less than a year

regards all,
Jad

As a co-author, I recommend:
Practical Support for CMMI - SW Software Project Documentation: Using IEEE Software Engineering Standards
Susan K. Land, John W. Walz
ISBN: 0-471-73849-2
Paperback
343 pages
November 2005, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press
US $89.95
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0471738492,subjectCd-EE16.html

This book addresses the specific documentation requirements in support of the CMMI-SW® by providing detailed documentation guidance in the form of:
* Detailed organizational policy examples.
* An Integrated set of over 20 deployable document templates.
* Examples of over 50 common work products required in support of assessment activities.
* Examples of organizational delineation of process documentation.

Though there are number of books the assessors are different and each has his/her own set of requirments and there is no uniformity.

Moreover the small IT companies face the problem because the enormous documentation that needs to be prepared takes away most of the implementation time and instituionalise them. Infact the very purpose of ISO 9001:2000 was to remove the documentation that was required under the 1994 version.

The need is to make the CMMI more simpler and pragmatic so that unwanted documentation can be curtailed.

Does anyone have an ISO 9001 vs. CMMI comparison matrix in Excel?

hi sir,
Is there any comparison between RUP and CMMI?

if so how they interelated with each other?