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Eileen Forrester is the manager of the CMMI for Services program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and a senior member of the technical staff. She was the co-chair of the International Process Research Consortium and the editor of the IPRC Process Research Framework. Eileen is the developer of TransPlant, a transition-planning process, and her current research area is in process-oriented approaches to service delivery, technology change, risk management, and emergent system types. These approaches include GAIT, CMMI for Services, OCTAVE, MDA, and multimodel improvement approaches. She has more than thirty-five years of experience in technology transition, strategic planning, process improvement, communication planning, and in managing product, service, and nonprofit organizations.
Brandon L. Buteau is a Technical Fellow, technologist, and process architect at Northrop Grumman. He has been a member of the CMMI for Services model development team from its beginning, and is both the chief architect for the model and the team’s ontologist. His professional career of more than thirty-five years has spanned the analysis and development of advanced systems, technology, and processes. Brandon currently helps to define and develop quality and process architectures as well as supporting tools. He leads, performs, coordinates, and consults on research, strategic analyses, technology assessments, knowledge/information modeling, and business development across a spectrum of technologies needed by customers. He received a B.A. in applied mathematics (computer science) from Harvard University in 1976.
Sandy Shrum is a senior writer/editor and communications point of contact for the Software Engineering Process Management program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Along with this book, she has coauthored two other CMMI books: CMMI®-ACQ: Guidelines for Improving the Acquisition of Products and Services (Addison-Wesley, 2009) and two editions of CMMI®: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement (Addison-Wesley). She has been with the SEI since 1995 and has been a member of the CMMI Development Team since the CMMI project’s inception in 1998. Her roles on the project have included model author, small review team member, reviewer, editor, model development process coordinator, and quality assurance process owner. Before joining the SEI, Sandy worked for eight years as a document developer with Legent Corporation, a Virginia-based software company. Her experience as a technical communicator dates back to 1988, when she earned her M.S. in professional writing from Carnegie Mellon University. Her undergraduate degree, a B.S. in business administration, was earned at Gannon University, Erie, Pennsylvania.
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xix
Part One: About CMMI for Services 1
Chapter 1: Introduction 3
Do You Need CMMI? 3
How Does CMMI Help You to Solve These Problems? 5
How Can CMMI Benefit You? 7
Evolution of CMMI 8
CMMI Framework 10
CMMI for Services 10
Important CMMI-SVC Concepts 11
Chapter 2: Process Area Components 21
Core Process Areas and CMMI Models 21
Required, Expected, and Informative Components 21
Components Associated with Part Two 22
Supporting Informative Components 27
Numbering Scheme 29
Typographical Conventions 29
Chapter 3: How to Start Using CMMI 33
Important Roles in Process Improvement 33
SCAMPI Appraisals 36
CMMI Training 37
An Approach to Getting Started 38
How to Get There 46
Chapter 4: Achieving Process Improvement that Lasts 51
Overview 51
Lasting Improvement 51
Understanding Generic Practices 51
Understanding Capability Levels 52
Using Capability Levels 53
Understanding Maturity Levels 55
Using Maturity Levels 57
Using Capability Levels and Maturity Levels 57
Equivalent Staging 59
Achieving High Maturity 63
Chapter 5: Relationships Among Process Areas 65
Relationships that Drive Service Establishment and Delivery 66
Relationships that Drive Service Management 69
Lifecycles 71
Chapter 6: Essays About CMMI for Services 79
A Changing Landscape 79
Expanding Capabilities across the “Constellations” 86
CMMI for Services, with a Dash of CMMI for Development 89
Enhancing Advanced Use of CMMI-DEV with CMMI-SVC Process Areas for SoS 94
Multiple Paths to Service Maturity 97
Using CMMI-DEV and ISO 20000 Assets in Adopting CMMI-SVC 102
Experience-Based Expectations for CMMI-SVC 111
An IT Services Scenario Applying CMMI for Services: The Story of How HeRus Improved Its IT Services 116
Are Services Agile? 129
What We Can Learn from High-Performing IT Organizations to Stop the Madness in IT Outsourcing 135
Public Education in an Age of Accountability 143
Applying CMMI-SVC for Educational Institutions 148
Plans Are Worthless 159
CMMI Ensures Vehicle Insurance Services 164
Security and CMMI for Services 173
Part Two: Generic Goals and Generic Practices, and the Process Areas 187
Generic Goals and Generic Practices 189
Capacity and Availabili ty Management 261
Causal Analysis and Resolution 281
Configuration Management 291
Decision Analysis and Resolution 305
Incident Resolution and Prevention 315
Integrated Work Management 335
Measurement and Analysis 357
Organizational Process Definition 375
Organizational Process Focus 389
Organizational Performance Management 405
Organizational Process Performance 425
Organizational Training 441
Process and Product Quality Assurance 453
Quantitative Work Management 461
Requirements Management 483
Risk Management 493
Supplier Agreement Management 509
Service Continuity 523
Service Delivery 539
Service System Development 561
Service System Transition 595
Strategic Service Management 609
Work Monitoring and Control 621
Work Planning 633
Part Three: The Appendices 661
Appendix A: References 663
Appendix B: Acronyms 669
Appendix C: CMMI Version 1.3 Project Participants 673
Appendix D: Glossary 681
Book Contributors 715
Index 729
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