Title: CMMI® Survival Guide: Just Enough Process Improvement"
Authors: Suzanne Garcia and Richard Turner
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional, October, 2006, as part of the SEI Series in Software Engineering
ISBN: 0321422775
Copyright 2007 by Pearson Education, Inc.
The CMMI provides a framework for process improvement spanning the life cycle of a product or service, from conception through delivery and maintenance. Widely and beneficially adopted around the world, the CMMI has nonetheless been daunting to some organizations for its size and apparent complexity of the framework. That need not be so. With a proper guide to help navigate around unknown dangers, potential pitfalls, and false paths, you too, can realize substantial business value from a successful CMMI implementation. This book is such a guide, full of the real-life examples to ease your way, and written in a lighter style to ease your reading.
The CMMI® Survival Guide is an effective resource for multiple readerships. If you are just now considering a process improvement program, with the CMMI among your options, the authors' discussion of relevant issues will enhance your business case right from the start. If you have already decided to implement the CMMI, the authors' practical knowledge will help you make the most of your efforts. Even if you are well into a CMMI implementation, but are lost, stuck, or going around in circles, the authors' valuable advice will help you regain your direction.
If you work in a smaller or resource-strapped organization, you will particularly benefit from the authors' description of alternative paths to process improvement -- approaches that are more incremental or agile, and less intensive, than you might imagine for a CMMI implementation. The authors draw on their extensive experience working with diverse organizations, and on the CMMI tools, techniques, and templates developed for those organizations.
Whatever your background or need, the CMMI® Survival Guide will help you survey the CMMI territory, consult possible road maps, learn from other CMMI explorers, weigh the benefits of hiring a living guide, and even consider whether the trip is right for you.
Click here to read chapter 7, "Survival and PI."
This chapter is excerpted from the book titled, "CMMI® Survival Guide: Just Enough Process Improvement", authored by Suzanne Garcia and Richard Turner, published by Addison-Wesley Professional in October, 2006, as part of the SEI Series in Software Engineering; ISBN 0321422775; Copyright 2007 by Pearson Education, Inc.; for further information, please visit: http://www.awprofessional.com/bookstore/product.asp?isbn=0321422775&rl=1
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