With the advent of Agile & LEAN Thinking, i have earlier lamented about the Value CMMI added to organizations. It was my opinion that unless there is complete overhaul they would soon be history See CMMI has outlived its purpose

Thankfully, I was wrong, With CMMI 2.0 The Model itself has undergone significant improvements. Its own Capability & Maturity has substantially leapfrogged.

The Practice Areas (earlier process areas) are now grouped under Capability Areas, which fall under four broad categories of Doing, Managing, Enabling and Improving

Also CMMI 2.0 integrates the Development / Services / Acquisition into a common Model, (+ Relevant PCMM aspects) with option to select relevant Practice Areas based on Organization Context

There is an additional focus now on Org. maturity through the Introduction of Capability Areas, “Managing Business Resilience” and “Sustaining Habit and Persistence” which encompasses practice areas such as Governance, Implementation Infrastructure and “Risk and Opportunity Management”

The Practice area definitions also have an Intent & value statement, which provide clarity to the stakeholders to tailor the model based on org. context.

We earlier had a the concept of Capability Level & Maturity Level and Staged and continuous representation, which had its share of confusion. This seems to have been resolved, we do not anymore have Process areas associated with levels.

Every Practice Area has Practices starting at Level 1. They have practices defined which follow an increasing level of maturity from Level 1 to 5. This also significantly improves the Assessment process and Organizations can self assess their current performance level based on the extent to which each of the practices are institutionalized.

More of it later, as i get an opportunity to deep dive into it. But for now its suffice to say, that CMMI is still very much in the game

(Do visit the CMMI Institute website for more information & Resources)