| People often tend to compare CMMI with ISO 9001. | | | | training. |
| The most common thing that I come to hear is that | | | | Maintaining Process Asset Library: |
| ISO 9001:2000 is same as CMMI Level 3. I am no | | | | This library contains process assets that include |
| expert on this but being an ISO 9001 organization | | | | process related documentation such as policies, |
| which has started its journey for CMMI, I cannot | | | | defined processes, checklists, lessons-learned |
| resist but talk about how different CMMI is from ISO | | | | documents, templates, standards, procedures, plans, |
| 9001. | | | | and training materials. These assets are required for |
| First off, CMMI-SW had been designed as a | | | | the process to interpreted and executed properly. |
| framework for addressing the problem that is faced | | | | Discipline of Risk Management: |
| by organizations that are into development of | | | | CMMI looks at risk management as an organized and |
| software intensive systems. ISO on the other hand is | | | | technical discipline to identify things that light cause |
| applicable for all manufacturing organizations that may | | | | harm or loss. Once a risk is identified it is quantified |
| or may not be into software development. Thus, | | | | and prioritized and the risk is tracked throughout the |
| both your software organization as well as a | | | | project life cycle. |
| road-side bakery can be an ISO 9001 organization but | | | | Causal Analysis: |
| the bakery won’t get a CMMI certification. | | | | The causes of variation in achieving the project goals |
| Here are the few things there in CMMI which ISO | | | | are analyzed formally and the root is identified and |
| misses or does not mention explicitly: | | | | addressed so the variation is eliminated or their |
| Institutionalization: | | | | impact is minimized. |
| Without institutionalization a process breaks under | | | | Concept of Stakeholders: |
| pressure of deadline. CMMI stresses the fact that the | | | | CMMI states that a stakeholder is anyone who is |
| process should be ingrained into business so that it | | | | affected by or is accountable for the outcome of |
| becomes the part of corporate culture. | | | | the project. Thus, a stakeholder can include project |
| Focus on Organizational Training: | | | | team members, suppliers, customers, end users, and |
| For any process to implemented uniformly across | | | | others. |
| organization and to ensure that organization keeps | | | | I know that being in the business for software |
| learning and growing it important to identify training | | | | services it make better sense to be a CMMI |
| needs and impart it properly. It is for this reason that | | | | organization. |
| CMMI has a separate practice area in the area of | | | | |