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CMMI models extend the original CMM concept to multiple disciplines, serving as tools that help organizations improve processes across software, systems engineering, and other domains. The model aims to help organizations enhance product and service development, acquisition, and maintenance processes, and to integrate with other CMMI models for enterprise‑wide improvement. The model incorporates systems engineering, software engineering, integrated product and process development, supplier sourcing, and traditional CMM concepts, and uses a continuous representation that measures process improvement through capability levels applied to individual process areas such as configuration management or verification.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) models have evolved the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) concept, established by the Capability Maturity Model for Software (SW-CMM), to a new level that enables the continued growth and expansion of the CMM concept to multiple disciplines. Like the SW-CMM, EIA/IS 731, IPD-CMM, SA-CMM, and other process improvement models, CMMI models are tools that help organizations improve their processes. This CMMI model is designed to help organizations improve their product and service development, acquisition, and maintenance processes. Concepts covered by this model include systems engineering, software engineering, integrated product and process development, and supplier sourcing as well as traditional CMM concepts such as process management and project management. Each CMMI model is designed to be used in concert with other CMMI models, making it easier for organizations to pursue enterprise-wide process improvement at their own pace. This CMMI model has a continuous representation, which focuses on measuring process improvement using capability levels. Capability levels apply to process-improvement achievement within individual process areas such as configuration management or verification.