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CMMI® Institute offers market-driven solutions that provide insights for baselining and optimizing your key organizational capabilities, cybermaturity, and data assets to elevate your business performance.

Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)

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Data Management Maturity (DMM)

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CMMI® training courses provide guidance for efficient, effective improvement across multiple process disciplines in an organization. Whether you are just getting started with CMMI or have decades of experience, our training courses will move you along your career path.

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The CMMI Resource Center is a collection of every digital resource in one place. Browse through our collection of presentations, webinars, articles, case studies, and whitepapers to answer all your CMMI questions.

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What is CMMI®?

The Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)® is a proven set of global best practices that drives business performance through building and benchmarking key capabilities.

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Originally created for the U.S. Department of Defense to assess the quality and capability of their software contractors, CMMI models have expanded beyond software engineering to help any organization in any industry build, improve, and measure their capabilities and improve performance.

For over 25 years, high-performing organizations around the world have achieved demonstrable, sustainable business results with CMMI.

Descriptive Practices Focused on Improvement

CMMI best practices focus on what needs to be done to improve performance and align operations to business goals. Designed to be understandable, accessible, flexible, and integrate with other methodologies such as agile, CMMI models help organizations understand their current level of capability and performance and offer a guide to optimize business results.

How capable is your organization?

All organizations have capabilities. What many don't have is a process by which they can measure their different capabilities against best practices and pinpoint which ones are driving higher performance.

  • 50%

    don’t have standard processes, process assets, and job aids.

  • 42%

    have no established planning process.

  • 41%

    aren’t encouraging employees to build organizational capabilities.

  • 33%

    cite difficulties in monitoring plans and making adjustments when needed.

  • 54%

    do not measure what matters.

Why Build Capability?

Knowing your organization’s key capabilities creates new value.

When an organization’s distinctive capabilities are clearly defined, everything and everyone within the organization begins to positively reinforce each other. The business takes on new life as people know and focus on putting standard processes in place to strengthen their key capabilities.

Organizations that know their capabilities see results:

  • Increased customer satisfaction.
  • Increased probability of capturing new and repeat business.
  • Increased profit through improved quality and less rework.
  • Increased productivity.
  • Decreased risks.

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When an organization's distinctive capabilities are clearly defined, everything and everyone within the organization begins to positively reinforce each other.

Introducing CMMI V2.0

Designed to meet the challenges of the changing global business landscape, CMMI V2.0 drives business performance through building and benchmarking key capabilities.

The core of CMMI V2.0 is a proven set of global best practices organized by critical business capabilities which improve business performance. These critical capabilities address the biggest challenges common to any organization, including:

  • Engineering and Developing Products
  • Improving Performance
  • Delivering and Managing Services
  • Sustaining Habit and Persistence
  • Managing Business Resilience
  • Planning and Managing Work
  • Selecting and Managing Suppliers
  • Ensuring Quality
  • Managing the Workforce
  • Supporting Implementation

Using CMMI

Explore the many different ways practitioners and organizations can get started with the CMMI.

Adoption Guide

Adoption Guide

Whether you are new to CMMI or an existing user, the Adoption Guide is your roadmap and first step on your performance improvement journey. View an overview of the Adoption Guide Quick Reference.

CMMI Models

Customized Views for Different Needs

CMMI consists of customized views that apply to different business environments, enabling organizations to create a view of the model that meets their specific performance improvement needs. Explore Development, Services, Supplier Management, People Management, and Data Management.

CMMI Training and Certifications

CMMI Training and Certifications

CMMI Training Courses and Certifications are designed to prepare individuals to successfully understand and adopt the CMMI to achieve better performance results.

CMMI Appraisals

CMMI Appraisals

CMMI appraisals help businesses identify strengths and weaknesses of existing organizational performance and processes. The results provide a clear path to adopt model best practices.

Connect with a CMMI Consultant

Connect with a CMMI Partner

CMMI Institute has experienced partners to get you started on your journey to improve your organizational performance. Contact a CMMI Institute Partner through our Partner Directory or contact us for more information at info@cmmiinstitute.com

Explore CMMI Resources

Explore CMMI Resources

Visit the CMMI Resource Center and browse through our collection of presentations, webinars, articles, case studies, and whitepapers to answer all your CMMI questions.

Customized Views to Meet Different Performance Improvement Needs

CMMI is a set of customized views that apply to different business environments, enabling organizations to create a view of the model that meets their specific performance improvement needs.
 

First, select your organization’s challenges.

  • Does your organization struggle to deliver quality products and services that meet customer needs due to:

    • Cost overruns?
    • High defect rates?
    • Missed deadlines?

  • Does your organization struggle to deliver quality services for customers due to:

    • Service disruptions?
    • Re-work?
    • Cost overruns?
    • Time delays?

  • Does your organization struggle to identify and manage suppliers in a way that maximizes supply chain efficiency due to:

    • Misunderstood expectations?
    • Capacity and resource shortages?
    • Changes in requirements?

  • Does your organization struggle to maximize workforce performance due to:

    • Lack of employee skill sets and resources?
    • Turnover and poor morale?
    • Workflow bottlenecks?

  • Does your organization struggle to leverage its data assets due to:

    • Disparate silos?
    • No formal process or clear strategy?
    • Lack of support from leadership?
    • Little confidence in the integrity of the data?

Learn how CMMI can improve your organization's performance, quality, and profitability.

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