CMMI for Development: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement

SEI Series in Software Engineering

by Mary Beth Chrissis, Mike Konrad, Sandra Shrum

CMMI® for Development (CMMI-DEV) describes best practices for the development and maintenance of products and services across their lifecycle. By integrating essential bodies of knowledge, CMMI-DEV provides a single, comprehensive framework for organizations to assess their development and maintenance processes and improve performance. Already widely adopted throughout the world for disciplined, high-quality engineering, CMMI-DEV Version 1.3 now accommodates other modern approaches as well, including the use of Agile methods, Lean Six Sigma, and architecture-centric development. CMMI® for Development, Third Edition, is the definitive reference for CMMI-DEV Version 1.3. The authors have revised their tips, hints, and cross-references, which appear in the margins of the book, to help you better understand, apply, and find information about the content of each process area. The book includes new and updated perspectives on CMMI-DEV in which people influential in the model’s creation, development, and transition share brief but valuable insights. It also features four new case studies and five contributed essays with practical advice for adopting and using CMMI-DEV. This book is an essential resource–whether you are new to CMMI-DEV or are familiar with an earlier version–if you need to know about, evaluate, or put the latest version of the model into practice. The book is divided into three parts. Part One offers the broad view of CMMI-DEV, beginning with basic concepts of process improvement. It introduces the process areas, their components, and their relationships to each other. It describes effective paths to the adoption and use of CMMI-DEV for process improvement and benchmarking, all illuminated with fresh case studies and helpful essays. Part Two, the bulk of the book, details the generic goals and practices and the twenty-two process areas now comprising CMMI-DEV. The process areas are organized alphabetically by acronym for easy reference. Each process area includes goals, best practices, and examples. Part Three contains several useful resources, including CMMI-DEV-related references, acronym definitions, a glossary of terms, and an index.

Genres: Reference, Programming, Productivity, Nonfiction, Engineering, Business

688 pages, Hardcover

First published February 21, 2011

Reviews

[Mark]

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) is a collection of best practices for process improvement initiatives. CMMI-DEV extends and applies the practices to automation (software) products and services. The books topics are exceptionally well organized and sequenced for both instructional and reference purposes.
I'm fascinated by information organization and refer to this book not only for its content but also as an example of how to structure information for clarity, adequacy, conciseness, and easy discovery of topics relevant to current tasks.

[Torben Rasmussen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Reasonably good reference guide. Intrductionary chapters are especially good. A lot of material is same as "official" CMMI material. Well-structured, but not too inspiring.