Comparison of CMMI with Other Frameworks

The specific Practice Areas areas are organized into four categories:

• Process Management - Contains the cross-project activities related to defining, planning, resourcing, deploying, implementing, monitoring, controlling, appraising, measuring, and improving processes
• Project Management - Covers the project management activities related to planning, monitoring, and controlling the project.
• Engineering - Covers the development and maintenance activities that are shared across engineering disciplines (e.g., systems engineering and software engineering).
• Support - Covers the activities that support product development and maintenance. The Support process areas address processes that are used in the context of performing other processes. In general the Support process areas address processes that are targeted towards the project, and may address processes that apply more generally to the organization.

It is desirable for the organization to achieve and subsequently institutionalize the processes at a lower maturity level before undertaking more mature processes. Most organizations are aspiring to achieve level 3 maturity, so CMMI distinguishes process interactions between "basic" and "advanced" process descriptions. basic interactions are described in the following schematics:

CMMI Basic Interations

CMMI Advanbced Interations

CMMI Practice Area - Click on CMMI practice area for list of sub-practices.	Framework					Description Click on check mark for description of how this framework treats this element
	ITIL	COBIT	MOF	HP	Other
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Project Planning
Project Monitoring & Control
Supplier Agreement Management
Integrated Project Management for IPPD
Risk Management
Integrated Teaming
Integrated Supplier Management
Quantitative Project Management
CMMI Practice Area - Click on CMMI practice area for list of sub-practices.	Framework					Description Click on check mark for description of how this framework treats this element
	ITIL	COBIT	MOF	HP	Other
PROCESS MANAGEMENT
Organizational Process Focus
Organizational Process Definition
Organizational Training
Organizational Process Performance
Innovation & Deployment
CMMI Practice Area - Click on CMMI practice area for list of sub-practices.	Framework					Description Click on check mark for description of how this framework treats this element
	ITIL	COBIT	MOF	HP	Other
ENGINEERING
Requirements Management
Requirements Development
Technical Solution
Product Integration
Verification
Validation
CMMI Practice Area - Click on CMMI practice area for list of sub-practices.	Framework					Description Click on check mark for description of how this framework treats this element
	ITIL	COBIT	MOF	HP	Other
SUPPORT
Configuration Management
Process & Product Quality Control
Measurement & Analysis
Decision Analysis & Resolution
Organizational Environment for Integration
Causal Analysis & Resolution

Sources Read ISO Model Descriptions Access CMMI Process Descriptions Access COBIT Process Descriptions Access MOF Technet Website View Hewlett-Packard Reference Model Access ISO Standard translated into Plain English Book - Systematic Process Improvement Using ISO 19001:2000 and CMMIR