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CMM and Its Level

One way of ensuring that software companies are capable of delivering service with quality is by knowing the maturity level of their organization. A maturity level is based on the capability of software developers in their ability to develop software.

Software companies follow a standard of process in the development, testing and software application; and rules for appearance of final program code, components, interfaces, etc. These standards are applied using the Capability Maturity Model (CMM).

The CMM is the model of process maturity for software development.

The CMM has 5 levels, which are defined based on process capability. The model shows the organizational maturity of software developers as it moves to next level towards a disciplined, measured, and continuously improving software process.

The levels are the following:

1. Initial level. The development of quality software

depends entirely on the managerOs personal approach and the programmersO experience. This means that a projectOs success can be repeated by same set of managers and programmers.

2. Repeatable level. The project planning and management is based on experience earned in the past. This level

may have tendency to roll back on initial level.

3. Defined level. The standards for the processes of

software development and maintenance are introduced and documented (including project management) under this level.

4. Managed level. Quantitative indices (for both software and process as a whole) established in the organization.

5. Optimizing level. Improvement procedures are carried out both involving processing and evaluation of new technologies introduce.

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It is important that software developers are able to deliver the service as required on time. After all, it is just fair that companies gets their moneyOs worth.

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