The Capability Maturity Model ( CMM ) ( a registered service mark of Carnegie Mellon University, CMU ) is a development model created after study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the U. S. Department of Defense, who funded the research.

The Capability Maturity Model was originally developed as a tool for objectively assessing the ability of government contractors ' processes to perform a contracted software project.

Watts Humphrey's Capability Maturity Model ( CMM ) was published in 1988 and as a book in 1989, in Managing the Software Process.

The full representation of the Capability Maturity Model as a set of defined process areas and practices at each of the five maturity levels was initiated in 1991, with Version 1. 1 being completed in January 1993.

The Capability Maturity Model Integration ( CMMI ) project was formed to sort out the problem of using multiple models for software development processes, thus the CMMI model has superseded the CMM model, though the CMM model continues to be a general theoretical process capability model used in the public domain.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. tried combining XP with the computer programming methods of Capability Maturity Model Integration ( CMMI ), and Six Sigma.

The best-known example of SEI work in management practices is the SEI ’ s Capability Maturity Model ( CMM ) for Software ( now Capability Maturity Model Integration ( CMMI )).

Carnegie Mellon, Capability Maturity Model, CMM, CMMI, Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method, ATAM, and CERT are registered in the U. S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.

Now widely adopted by numerous organizations and agencies, the CM discipline's concepts include ( SE ), integrated logistics support ( ILS ), Capability Maturity Model Integration ( CMMI ), ISO 9000, Prince2 project management methodology, COBIT, Information Technology Infrastructure Library ( ITIL ), product lifecycle management, and application lifecycle management.

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* Capability Maturity Model, tool for assessing processes in organizations ( used in software development )

* Capability Maturity Model Integration ( CMMI )

* Capability Maturity Model Integration / Capability Maturity Model

* Capability Maturity Model, a software engineering term indicating to which extent it is planned how to do things when developing, testing, documenting, maintaining software etc.

* Capability Maturity Model Integration / Capability Maturity Model

* Capability Immaturity Model ( CMII )

Process Capability is established from this level.

English Romantic poet John Keats termed this escape from logic " Negative Capability ".

His projects included Chiswick House, Stowe, Buckinghamshire, from about 1730 onwards, designs for Alexander Pope's villa garden at Twickenham, for Queen Caroline at Richmond and notably at Rousham House, Oxfordshire, where he created a sequence of Arcadian set-pieces punctuated with temples, cascades, grottoes, Palladian bridges and exedra, opening the field for the larger scale achievements of Capability Brown in the following generation.

Dorothy Stroud wrote the first full monograph on Capability Brown, fleshing out the generic attributions with documentation from country house estate offices.

Temple Newsam House from Morris's Country Seats ( 1880 ). Temple Newsam ( historically Temple Newsham, in legend Templestowe ) () is a Tudor-Jacobean house with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown, in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

In this he differed from Capability Brown, who worked almost exclusively with plans and rarely illustrated or wrote about his work.

* Social Work has received £ 200, 000 from the HEFCE Capability Initiative to embark on further development of already successful areas such as ethnicity, Connexions, criminal justice and parenting.

* Capability Theory Notes from several sources ( collated by Norm Hardy ).

The Financial Capability division of the FSA broke away from the organisation in 2010, and is now known as The Money Advice Service.

I had not a dispute but a disquisition with Dilke, upon various subjects ; several things dove-tailed in my mind, and at once it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously-I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason-Coleridge, for instance, would let go by a fine isolated verisimilitude caught from the Penetralium of mystery, from being incapable of remaining content with half-knowledge.

Both services began a program titled Air Crew Escape / Rescue Capability or Aerial Escape and Rescue Capability ( AERCAB ) ejection seats ( i. e. both terms have been used by the US military and defence industry ), where after the pilot ejected, the ejection seat would fly him to a location far enough away from where he ejected to where he could safely be picked up.

The name refers to the style of gardening ; the term English garden is used outside of the English speaking world to refer to the style of informal landscape gardening which was popular in the United Kingdom from the mid 18th century to the early 19th century, and is particularly associated with Capability Brown.

Bridgeman's formal grand avenue sweeps away from the south front of the house for two and a half miles in contrast with the remainder of the park which was " naturalised " by Capability Brown.

Problems with the new model, primarily damage to its composite material 6-bladed propellers from hail and ice and a lack of sensitivity in its color radar images, delayed its Initial Operational Capability until just before the 2005 hurricane season.

The campus is based in Newton Park in grounds designed by Capability Brown and leased from the Duchy of Cornwall.

Although he was a key figure in the transition of English garden design from the Anglo-Dutch formality of patterned parterres and avenues to a freer style that incorporated formal, structural and wilderness elements, Bridgeman is a somewhat obscure entity in the history of landscape architecture, his reputation eclipsed by those of his successors, William Kent and Lancelot “ Capability ” Brown ( Jellicoe, et al., 1986, p. 72 ).

The CRI Capability Fund ( CF ) replaced NSOF as from July 1, 2005.

The famous landscape garden round a lake, somewhat apart from the house, was developed after Campbell's death, by Henry Flitcroft and Lancelot " Capability " Brown.

At Royal Leamington Spa, the ornamental Jephson Gardens commemorate Dr. Jephson, who lived from 1798 to 1878, who worked hard to establish the medical reputation of the spa, while tourist attractions at Warwick include the fourteenth century Warwick Castle, which is set in grounds laid out by the landscape architect Capability Brown.

Capability based implementations can work at various levels, from kernel to user-space.

* 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Infantry Regiment ( light infantry ) – the original battalion formed in 1947, assumed the High Readiness Capability ( HRC ) role for Army and will change its role from mechanised infantry to light infantry in 2012.

Organizations were originally assessed using a process maturity questionnaire and a Software Capability Evaluation method devised by Humphrey and his colleagues at the Software Engineering Institute

The program resulted in the development of the Capability Maturity Model, published in 1989 in Humphrey's " Managing the Software Process " and inspired the later development of the Personal Software Process ( PSP ) and the Team Software Process ( TSP ).

Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust: Building a Competitive Software Capability.

In 1988, the Software Engineering Institute suggested that SPC could be applied to non-manufacturing processes, such as software engineering processes, in the Capability Maturity Model ( CMM ).

ISO / IEC 15504 Information technology — Process assessment, also known as SPICE ( Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination ), is a set of technical standards documents for the computer software development process and related business management functions.

SPICE initially stood for " Software Process Improvement and Capability Evaluation ", but in consideration of French concerns over the meaning of " evaluation ", SPICE has now been redefined as " Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination ".

The PSP was created by Watts Humphrey to apply the underlying principles of the Software Engineering Institute ’ s ( SEI ) Capability Maturity Model ( CMM ) to the software development practices of a single developer.

* SPICE ( Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination ), see ( ISO 15504 ), a process-assessment framework

The Software Engineering Institute has its own process assessment and improvement methods, called CMMi ( Capability Maturity Model — integrated ) and IDEAL respectively.

The Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model is a common means of assessing the overall software development process for reliability and quality purposes.

To fulfill these needs, Microsoft represents the metamodel of MSF 4. 0 in two prescriptive methodology templates that provide specific process guidance, named Microsoft Solutions Framework for Agile Software Development ( MSF4ASD ) and Microsoft Solutions Framework for Capability Maturity Model Integration Process Improvement ( MSF4CMMI ).

Capability Maturity Model was created at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, and is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of continuous process improvement resulting in a reduced SDLC, improved ability to meet the cost and schedule targets, building products of high quality.