Overview of the People Capability Maturity Model

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To date, improvement programs for software organizations have often emphasized process or technology, not people.

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The P-CMM is a maturity framework, patterned after the structure of the CMM, that focuses on continuously improving the management and development of the human assets of a software or information systems organization

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The skill of developing software is the skill of managing intellectual complexity.

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The motivation for the P-CMM is to radically improve the ability of software organizations to attract, develop, motivate, organize, and retain the talent needed to steadily improve their software development capability.

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series of increasingly sophisticated practices and activities for developing its workforce. These practices have been chosen from industrial experience

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A fundamental premise underlying the maturity framework is that a practice cannot be improved if it cannot be repeated.

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schedule or resource commitments that the software staff could not meet regardless of how sophisticated their skills or processes

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uncontrolled requirements changes

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instill a process discipline in the environment

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An obvious application of the maturity framework is to raise its application from the software component up to the level of systems engineering.

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The organization typically provides forms for activities such as performance appraisals or position requisitions, but offers little guidance

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establish a foundation of workforce practices

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