CMMI Institute

Products

Products

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.

Learning

Learning

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.

Resources

Resources

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.

News

News

Read the latest news, press releases and industry perspectives from CMMI.

Appraisals

Discover how an appraiser can help your organization identify operational strengths and weaknesses.

Types of CMMI Appraisals

The CMMI V2.0 Appraisal Method Definition Document describes four types of CMMI V2.0 Appraisals: Benchmark, Sustainment, Evaluation, and Action Plan Reappraisal.

Each type is designed to result in findings that describe the strengths and weaknesses of your organization's processes based on CMMI best practices. Familiarity with each type will help you make better decisions about which appraisal is right for your organization to meet business objectives and foster process improvement.

  • Benchmark Appraisal

    Identify opportunities for organizations to improve how they implement processes and their overall business performance.

  • Sustainment Appraisal

    Appraisal “check-up” done two years following a Benchmark Appraisal to determine if the organization is maintaining their appraisal level.

  • Action Plan Reappraisal

    A “second-chance” for organizations that narrowly failed to achieve their targeted appraisal level in a previous appraisal.

  • Evaluation Appraisal

    An informal and flexible approach used to help organizations prepare for an appraisal and determine opportunities for improvement.

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CMMI Certified Lead Appraisers can be consulted as to the value of each type of appraisal. Action Plan Reappraisals must be completed within 4 months of the end of the prior appraisal. Search our Directory to find a Lead Appraiser that's right for your organization's needs.