CMM: Management and Improvement of Software Process

Author: Lei Jianwen
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: This book integrates some abstract concepts of CMM into real-life scenarios, enabling readers to gain a comprehensive understanding of CMM through familiar examples from daily life. It then delves deeper into CMM from various perspectives. The book explains CMM from different angles, namely: (1) philosophy and practical life; (2) the relationship between software investors and CMM; (3) management framework; (4) mathematical expressions of CMM; (5) KPA and its application understanding; (6) introduction to foreign CMM auxiliary software; and (7) online reference materials on foreign CMM. The book's strength lies in helping those unfamiliar with software to quickly grasp the concepts, while also providing a deeper understanding of the software improvement process for readers who already know CMM. To ensure readers gain a comprehensive understanding of a particular angle after quickly reading a chapter, the book incorporates numerous charts and diagrams, making each chapter brief and easy to understand. The book does not assume any prior development experience for readers, allowing investors, managers, or programmers in companies to clearly grasp the philosophy of CMM through the examples provided. It is particularly suitable as a textbook for software improvement processes, software engineering, information technology management, MBA, and related disciplines. It can also serve as a reference for personnel involved in software process improvement, including evaluation team members, software engineering process group members, and software professionals.