Forty Days on Being a One by Juanita Campbel Rasmus

Forty Days on Being a One by Juanita Campbel Rasmus

Capability Maturity Model IntegrationSM (CMI) has rapidly become a preferred means of improving organizational processes in industry and government. Building on a decade of work with process improvement models, including the Capability Maturity Model(R) (CM(R)) for Software and the Systems Engineering Capability Model, a team of over two hundred engineering and process improvement experts worked for three years to create this broader, more agile instrument for guiding, integrating, and appraising improvement activities. CMI provides a single, integrated framework for improving processes throughout an organization, enhancing the quality and efficiency of the organization as a whole.

The CMI Product Suite is rich in detail and guidance, but correspondingly large and somewhat complex. The sheer volume of information it presents can seem overwhelming. CMI Distilled reduced that complexity with a fresh and approachable introduction to the key elements of CMI and integrated process improvement.

This new edition of CMI Distilled, updated for CMI version 1.1, includes more material in layman's language to meet a wider variety of reader's needs, but has not lost any of the technical content that made the first edition so successful. Written for those new to model-based process improvement, it also offers insights that can help even battle-scarred process improvement veterans and experienced systems, software and quality engineers perform better. CMI(R) Distilled, Second Edition is especially appropriate for executives and managers who need to understand why process improvement is valuable, why CMI is a tool of choice, and how to maximize the return on their efforts and investments.

The three authors have been involved with CMI since its inception, and they bring a wealth of their own experience and knowledge to this book. They highlight the pitfalls and short cuts that are all too often learned by costly experience. Above all, they provide a context for understanding why CMI is the fastest growing process improvement framework in the world.

Juanita Campbell Rasmus is a speaker, writer, spiritual director, and contemplative. She copastors the St. John's United Methodist Church in downtown Houston with her husband, Rudy. She's a trained spiritual director and a member of the Renovarü¾Ž–”¼ ministry team.