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Practical Insight into CMMI
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Practical Insight into CMMI
Tim Kasse
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Boston • London

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Kasse, Tim
Practical insight into CMMI.—(Artech puting library)
1. Capability Maturity Model (Computer software)
I. Title
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ISBN 1-58053-625-5
Cover design by Yekaterina Ratner
© 2004 Tim Kasse.
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To the process improvement and quality management professionals who toil in their
panies to positively influence the development and delivery of the highest
possible product and service quality that their projects can produce
.
Contents
Foreword by Bob Rassa .........xix
Foreword by Mike Phillips ........xxi
Preface ..............xxiii
Acknowledgments ..........xxviii
Book overview ............xxix
1 Engineering Systems Think ........1
CMM for Software 1
Establishment of the SEI 1
CMM to 1
Software Product En