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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Addison Wesley; 2 edition (2 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0321186133
  • ISBN-13: 978-0321186133
  • Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 17.8 x 2.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 509,914 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A new edition of this title is available, ISBN-10: 0321461088 ISBN-13: 9780321461087



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Capability Maturity Model IntegrationSM (CMMI) has rapidly become a preferred means of improving organizational processes in industry and government. Building on a decade of work with process improvement models, including the Capability Maturity Model® (CMM®) for Software and the Systems Engineering Capability Model, a team of over two hundred engineering and process improvement experts worked for three years to create this broader, more agile instrument for guiding, integrating, and appraising improvement activities. CMMI provides a single, integrated framework for improving processes throughout an organization, enhancing the quality and efficiency of the organization as a whole.

The CMMI Product Suite is rich in detail and guidance, but correspondingly large and somewhat complex. The sheer volume of information it presents can seem overwhelming. CMMI Distilled reduced that complexity with a fresh and approachable introduction to the key elements of CMMI and integrated process improvement.

This new edition of CMMI Distilled, updated for CMMI version 1.1, includes more material in layman's language to meet a wider variety of reader's needs, but has not lost any of the technical content that made the first edition so successful. Written for those new to model-based process improvement, it also offers insights that can help even battle-scarred process improvement veterans and experienced systems, software and quality engineers perform better. CMMI® Distilled, Second Edition is especially appropriate for executives and managers who need to understand why process improvement is valuable, why CMMI is a tool of choice, and how to maximize the return on their efforts and investments.

The three authors have been involved with CMMI since its inception, and they bring a wealth of their own experience and knowledge to this book. They highlight the pitfalls and short cuts that are all too often learned by costly experience. Above all, they provide a context for understanding why CMMI is the fastest growing process improvement framework in the world.



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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars CMMI is what?, 28 Sep 2006
By M. Stutchbury (UK) - See all my reviews
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I've been consulting in process improvement for 12 years. I've worked with dozens of organisations that follow the principles of the CMM.

After reading the book once I was stumped. So I read it again and I was even more confused. The book talks a lot about the history of CMMI - the founding CMM from engineering, software development etc. but doesn't tell you anything about them specifically - what makes them different.

More importantly, it didn't discuss CMMI in any detail or how to go about using it in any practical situation.

I for one was very disappointed in the book and felt compelled to write a review about it - the first time I've done so after buying and reading 50+ books based on reader recommendations.

In short, the book is poorly organised, provides a brief history of CMM/CMMI but doesn't provide any details or practical examples of how to use it, when to use it or where to use it.
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2 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars CMMI Distilled: A practical introduction to IPI, 2 Oct 2003
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This review is from: CMMI Distilled: An Introduction to Multi-discipline Process Improvement (SEI Series in Software Engineering) (Paperback)
Clear, concise, readable and informative. An excellent book.
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1.0 out of 5 stars One of the most tedious books I've read, 26 Mar 2009
By N. P. Stanford (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: CMMI Distilled: A Practical Introduction to Integrated Process Improvement (SEI Series in Software Engineering) (Paperback)
I bought this book in order to learn about a methodology that is going to be implemented in my workplace. The book didn't help in the slightest. It covers a load of history of CMMI, how it evolved, and then turned into a dictionary of acronyms that imparted no wisdom or useful information whatsoever.

It was clearly written to be easy to write, not to be easy to read.

I would recommend Cmmi: Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement (Sei Series in Software Engineering) instead. It contains information and guidance.
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