Web www.software-risk.co.uk

The state in which all special causes of process variation have been removed and prevented from recurring so that only the common causes of process variation of the process remain. (See “special cause of process variation,” “common cause of variation,” “standard process,” “statistically managed process,” and “capable process.”)

1. This glossary is from Appendix C of Technical Report CMU/SEI-2002-TR-004.
2. ® CMMI is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office by Carnegie Mellon University.

Related Articles
General Motors and CMMI
Java - process
Managing Product Delivery
ITIL - process
ITIL - business process
IT Ignored for Sarbanes-Oxley?
CMMI: work product and task attributes
CMMI: work breakdown structure

Similar Areas

Process Improvement Items

Project Management Items

Selected Books

Keywords

CMMI

capability maturity model

process

state

process variation

variation

statistically managed

managed pcess

capable process