A Brief History of the CMM

• Quality is Free Philip Crosby, McGraw-Hill 1979

  • Quality Management Maturity Grid: Five evolutionary stages in adopting quality practices

• Adopted by Watts Humphrey at IBM

• Watts Humphrey moved to SEI in 1986

  • Used questionnaires to refine model

• Managing the Software Process Watts Humphrey, Addison-Wesley 1989

• CMM® Version 1.1, SEI 1993

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