Five Quick Things You Need To Know about the new CMMI V2.0 – Right Now.
January 25, 2025 The ALL-NEW CMMI V2.0 is out, and can now be used to improve performance even more (and to receive a Maturity Level). Here’s five things that you need to know now.
1. It’s smaller, sort of.
Version 1.3 of the CMMI has 356 Practices in Maturity Level Three. These included all of the Generic and Specific practices across eighteen Process Areas.
Version 2.0 eliminates the Generic Practices altogether (whoo hooo?), combines Requirements Management (REQM) and Requirements Development (RD) into one Practice Area, and mashes up Validation and Verification. Great! But wait….there is a NEW Practice Area called “Implementation Infrastructure” (II) that takes the place of the Generic Practices. II must be applied to all Processes in your process set, effectively ,multiplying the, across many Practice Areas. They’ve also added Causal Analysis and Resolution (CAR) and Governance (GOV) to ML3. So…smaller? Yes, but not as much as you might think.
2. Practices are no longer very Specific….or Generic
After spending a lot of time learning about “Specific,” “Generic,” and “sub-practices,” for v1.3, we all thought we had the language mastered. But Noooo! Now there are just “practices”