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What is the relationship of the CMMI and the SW-CMM with ISO/CEI 15504, previously known as SPICE?

April 26, 2017cei CMMI ISO known relationship spice sw-cmm

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What is the relationship of the CMMI and the SW-CMM with ISO/CEI 15504, previously known as SPICE?

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A working group of ISO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electro-technical Commission) was established to produce a standard for a model of software development and maintenance practices and an assessment method. This group had the goal to produce standards to obtain international acceptance for these two components. This was the project SPICE (“Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination”). The project was transferred after to a regular working group of ISO-IEC to continue the work. It was the SPICE (“Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination”) project, which yielded to a regular ISO/CEI work group, who continued the work. This noble and ambitious objective evolved to produce not A model and A method, but a SET of requirements to be satisfied by models and methods in order to be in conformance to the ISO-IEC standard. This change of course from the initial objective (one single model and one single method), pr