Cmmi & Pmbok

Contrasting CMMI and the PMBOK
CMMI Technology Conference & User Group November 2005
Wayne Sherer U.S. Army ARDEC Sandy Thrasher, PMP Anteon Corporation

Agenda
• • • • • • • Purpose & OverviewConsiderations for Comparison Similarities Between CMMI and PMBOK “Grey” Areas and Differences How PMBOK Supplements CMMI How CMMI Supplements PMBOK Conclusions
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Purpose
• Contrast processrequirements contained in CMMI to the process requirements in the PMBOK

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Overview
• PMBOK provides additional project management processes for CMMI Organizations • CMMI provides a processmanagement structure and Systems and Software Engineering Best Practices • Combining them will result in better and more complete project management of engineering projects

Considerations for Comparison5

Coverage
• CMMI
– Addresses Project Management of engineering endeavors – Addresses a larger organization composed of engineering projects

• PMBOK
– Addresses Project Managementwithout addressing the type of project or directly addressing the larger organization

• The depth of coverage varies between the documents
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Intent & Structure
• PMBOK supports training ProjectManagers for Project Management Professional (PMP) certification • CMMI supports organizational process improvement for achievement of maturity and/or capability levels • While both have a projectmanagement focus, the structure of these documents is different
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CMMI

SM

Model Components in the Staged Representation
Maturity Levels Process Area 1 Specific Goals Process Area 2 Generic GoalsProcess Area n

Specific Practices

Generic Practices

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PMBOK Components
KnowledgeArea (4) Knowledge Area (5) ... Knowledge Area (12)

Process 5.1

Process 5.2

Process 5.n

5.2.1 Inputs

5.2.2 Tools & Techniques

5.2.3 Outputs
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