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July 2002
4. Staging and Maturity Levels
(what to focus on next)
(what to focus on next)
The choice of
improvement areas is always based on business
objectives
However, iCMM
groups PAs and CLs into maturity levels
to provide:
Guidance for ordering or prioritizing PAs, if
needed
in general, PAs at one maturity level provide a foundation for PAs in a level that follows
Summarized maturity levels, if needed
for benchmarking with other models that define maturity levels (i.e.,
SA-CMM and CMMI)
for summarizing a stage of process maturity