Process Improvement and CMMI for Systems and Software

Preface

Process has been a major part of human life since the beginning of time. The biblical Book of Genesis tells the story of creation, showing that a process existed to take this vast mass of diffuse matter floating around in order to create a universe. First, a differentiation between night and day was created. Quality control was part of the process: “And G-d saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good” (Genesis 1:31), a first example of testing and quality control. On the second day, a separation of the waters between the oceans and the sky was created. Again, quality control was imposed to make sure that the results were what were intended. On the third through the sixth days, the process continued until we had ...