What is CMMI-DEV & its Relationship to Application Support?
CMMI is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve their performance. CMMI models are collections of best practices that you can compare to your organization’s best practices and guide improvement to your processes. The Capability Maturity Model Integration for Development (CMMi-DEV) is an internationally recognized evaluation standard for assessing software development practices. Since the CMMi-DEV 1.2 was introduced in 2006 as the improved successor to version 1.1, it has become the standard by which organizations measure the maturity level of their processes. The document in the download section of the blog “CAI Application Support: CMMI-DEV (L2 – L5)” is an analysis of CAI’s application support process maturity and compliance to CMMi-DEV KPA’s (key process activities) for Software Development. Within this document the definition of “Organization” differs depending on the KPA group, in many ca