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The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) developed the Capability Maturity Model for Software® (Model) to assist organizations in the assessment and improvement of their project management process. The Model categorizes an organization's capability to develop software within one of five "maturity" levels. The Model suggests an organization can improve its development skills (move into a higher category) by implementing the techniques defined within a category (and within any lower categories, excluding the Initial category). The categories and defining characteristics are:
The main areas SEI encourages organizations to implement or improve to mature their development capabilities include: