The SEI Capability Maturity Model

This is a mirror site of the University of Houston Clear Lake SEI Capability Maturity Model Web site.

This is a hypertext version of the Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model version 1.1 -- including the key practices document.

This hyper-document was produced semi-automatically (or semi-manually, depending on your outlook) at the University of Houston Clear Lake as part of the Repository Based Software Engineering programme using the current (as of August 1994) electronic versions of the two documents cited below available by anonymous FTP from the SEI.

Please click here for the source documents in question via FTP from the SEI server.

The text is organised as two technical reports (SEI-93-TR-24 and SEI-93-TR-25) describing the Capability Maturity Model and its Key Practices, respectively. Please follow the following hyperlinks to the documents in question:

For those with slow Internet access or who simply prefer to view documents locally, archived versions of these HTML documents are available for download from our Process Maturity Resource Download Page on this WWW server.

Watch this space!

We fairly soon hope to add some more CMM-related material to this page such as level two and three KPA transition packages developed by UHCL students as part of Software Engineering Process team assignments.

For More Information:

For more information on the University of Houston Clear Lake and the Repository Based Software Engineering programme, please follow the hyperlinks below:

For more information on the Software Engineering Institute, please follow this link to the SEI Information Server.


A French version of the CMM is available from the Applied Software Engineering Center (ASEC), Montreal.
Une version française du modèle CMM est accessible au Centre de génie logiciel appliqué (CGLA) de Montréal.


Another source of software engineering capability information is our WWW version of Bell Canada's Trillium model. To quote from the introductory chapter of this document: "Trillium is used by Bell Canada to assess the product development and support capability of prospective and existing suppliers of telecommunications or information technology-based products. Trillium can also be used as a reference benchmark in an internal capability improvement program."

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For reporting problems or questions in general about these documents, please send e-mail to:

Carl W. Irving (cwirving@rbse.jsc.nasa.gov)