Practical Insight Into CMMI, Second Edition

Kasse begins by providing you with some of the more critical vocabulary that is used throughout CMMI plus some ideas of the roles and responsibilities of management and practitioners. He illustrates the evolutionary differences between the CMM for software and CMMI and focuses on the inclusive topics of project management. Then he presents the recursive nature of the total requirements gathering and analysis process from identifying stakeholders to deriving and validating requirements at all stages. Next, Kasse presents the concepts and guidelines that CMMI has to offer on establishing criteria and selecting product component solutions.

Kasse also presents CMMI process areas of product integration, verification, and validation as a "mathematical triple." He describes the organizational components necessary to establish and keep your business on a path of continuous process improvement and shows you how to build an organizational training program. What's more, he explains how to build and manage integrated teams and makes the case for applying the principles of both the staged and continuous representations of CMMI in supporting an organization's process improvement initiative.

If you want to take advantage of CMMI in your workplace -- or enhance your skills in adopting and practicing CMMI -- you will want to own this detailed and thorough presentation.

John R. Vacca

John R. Vacca, the former computer security official (CSO) for NASA's space station program (Freedom), has written nearly 40 books about advanced storage, computer security, and aerospace technology.