SEI and the "maturity" concept:The Software Engineering Institute of the Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh , has developed the concept of "maturity" in software development. Maturity is defined as the capacity of an organization to ensure the quality of its projects (deadlines, cost, and funcionality), the homogeneity and repeatability, and the learning capacity from its own experiences for the continuous improvements.
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The commitment to offer products and services of the highest quality standards to our customers, always specialized, stable and competitive, has moved us to adopt CMMi's development model.
For software developing companies, the model adopted in production, and maintenance activities has profound implications in the general level of efficiency of the bussiness. Working wihtout a method could be an option, but it is not a methodology. In order to produce, in an efficient and repeatable manner in all projects, it is neccesasary, to fully engage in proccess management.
The CMMi model published by the SEI is a guide to improve organizations, both in the maturity of the organization, as in the capacity of the processes. The CMMi process areas, and the maturity categories to which they belong are: