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“Stages for CMMI”, the newest pre-customized Stages version will be officially released on SEPG in San Jose, CA.

In addition to the usual release information, that you can find here, there are a few things that might interest you. “Stages for CMMI” comes with all three CMMI models that are currently available: CMMI for Development (CMMI-DEV), CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC) and CMMI for Acquisition (CMMI-ACQ). All three come with their latest releases. With that, you can model your processes and make sure that they are compliant to any of these models.

The interesting part is, you can use the best of these models in parallel. Organizations that have both development and services (and that’s almost every organisation on the planet) are able to choose the parts of the models that they like to concentrate on and check their processes against them. So even if you do not plan to implement everything that CMMI is telling you (and that’s A LOT), you can select those parts of the model that support your business goals.

This has some important implications on the way you describe and publish your processes. You simply give your users the information they need for their daily work (e.g., templates for work products, methodology information, direct access to project documents) instead of overwhelming them with CMMI model theory and terminology. Thus, your people don’t find themselves in a completely different world. It helps them understanding the basics and, in turn, boosts your process acceptance.

Seen from the technical side, “Stages for CMMI” is a full feature release. It contains all functional features that are available in normal Stages versions.

If you have further questions, feel free to ask.

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