What is a Maturity Model?
Most of the SOA Maturity Models currently under development hearken back to the widely popular Capability Maturity Model (CMM), and its update the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) , both out of Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute. The CMMI is a method for evaluating and measuring the maturity of an organization’s software development and integration processes. The CMMI describes five maturity levels that identify the characteristics of increasingly mature processes, giving an organization a sense of their current progress with IT and where they need to improve. SOA Maturity Models are only loosely related to CMMI, because while they take the notion of a maturity model from CMMI, they don’t have much else in common, because CMMI measures the maturity of IT processes, while SOA Maturity Models should measure the maturity of an organization’s architecture. After all, since CMMI applies to all software, integration, and IT processes, CMMI would arguably
