Finally, “…the most comprehensive and practical CMMIŽ implementation guide to date…”
Tim Kasse’s NEW Book:

Practical Insight into the CMMIŽ
Artech House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004
ISBN 1-58053-625-5

Foreword by: Bob Rassa, Raytheon
CMMI Steering Group Chair (Industry)

Foreword by Mike Phillips, CMMI Program Manager, Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
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Insight to the CMMIŽ,
Artech House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2004
Foreword by: Bob Rassa, Raytheon
CMMI Steering Group Chair (Industry)

One thing that users of the new Capability Maturity Model - Integrated (CMMI)
have needed is a solid, easily understood practical guide to CMMI adoption.
CMMI is still relatively new, users are still feeling their way along the path
to success, and on that path they are realizing that solid interpretative
guidance is hard to come by. This new book certainly satisfies that need for the
process improvement community. As more and more organizations, commercial and
defense, firm up their CMMI adoption plans, they can count on this book as the
most comprehensive and practical CMMI implementation guide to date. 1

Based on his and his colleague’s extensive background with the predecessor
models, and his in-depth knowledge of systems engineering and software process
methodologies, Tim Kasse has generated an extremely insightful and absolutely
essential treatise on CMMI. Long on background to provide a solid foundation of
understanding, this guide provides clear and appropriate interpretations of
CMMI requirements and deployment concepts, with heavy emphasis on practical
application and understanding.

Tim also hits home on several essential elements of CMMI. If one examines the
CMMI Continuous Representation, one can recognize that there is some
increased focus on Project Management over the predecessor models, but the true
significance of this doesn't always resonate. Tim provides extremely powerful
discussions, with real-world examples, that clarify the essential Project Management
roles and responsibilities in CMMI, roles that if not adequately fulfilled
can lead to less than successful CMMI implementation. This book also clearly
articulates the increased emphasis on systems engineering, and helps clarify that
CMMI is not merely a maturity model that integrates stovepipe
discipline-based models, but is rather a model for process improvement that causes
exceptional systems engineering content to appear in the design environment of adopting
organizations. And this, in fact, may be the single greatest advantage that
CMMI has over any other model set for process improvement.

Another major strength is the in-depth discussion on what CMMI really means
to the organization, and how to go about building the business case for
adoption. Of particular significance is the discussion on achieving CMMI Levels 4 and
5, wherein the real benefits and return-on-investment of continuous process
improvement are felt. Level 5 is where the two representations of CMMI, staged
and continuous, tend to merge with only slight differences, and this book
provides an outstanding discussion of both the similarities and the differences,
thus giving the reader enough information to make the right intelligent
decision about which representation to adopt.

Without question, this book is essential reading for the key members of any
organization either contemplating, or in the process of, CMMI adoption. It
provides sufficient insight to answer most of the questions that have arisen
relative to CMMI interpretation, and will certainly be viewed as the definitive
bible on CMMI for many years to come.

Bob Rassa, Raytheon
CMMI Steering Group Chair (Industry)

Foreword By: Mike Phillips, CMMI Program Manager, January 15, 2004 Software
Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

As I write this foreword to Tim’s book, we are nearing the third anniversary
of the CMMI Product Suite Version 1.1. Process improvement professionals like
Tim have trained over 10,000 people in this model, and appraisal teams have
benchmarked nearly 200 organizations against this standard for developmental
excellence. Our web site at the SEI is now being accessed over a million times a
month, from product developing organizations around the world. From its
origins in the software and systems engineering communities, organizations are
discovering its value in projects all through today’s complex enterprises. They
are improving processes and practices, products and services, technical and
business approaches.

Because progress along the model’s improvement paths has often become a
requirement for selection as a supplier, the CMMI framework is often known for its
maturity and capability levels. But the real value of the effort to understand
and improve the organization’s processes is NOT to “reach a level.” Rather,
it is in the direct result on the product – and the professional competence
and agility of the organization to address the changes in a dynamic, high
technology marketplace – that real “return on investment” is realized.
As we have expanded the coverage of these practices to more and more elements
of the organization, it was time for a book like this one. The CMMI framework
captures hundreds of practices for organizations to consider to perform “
better and better.” But what are the ways that leaders can use the results of
these efforts? How can they stimulate – champion – the “maturing” of the
organization?

Tim brings his years of experience in development, and in aiding others on
their process improvement journey, to you in this “workbook.” His “fire in the
belly” is evident when he addresses audiences around the world to encourage
them to get on board – and enjoy the ride toward better products and services
delivered from workplaces that are also becoming more enriching environments.
It is my hope that you will earmark pages that assist you in making a
difference on the projects and products that you lead or guide – whether they are
developing software intensive systems, or in parts of the enterprise we have just
begun to consider!

Mike Phillips, CMMI Program Manager Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

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