CyberQ has been helping organizations to implement CMM and CMMI since 1997 and has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, all over the world. CyberQ has developed a methodology to implement CMMI, which has been used by over 150 organizations. The methodology is outlined below.

Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes. It can be used to guide process improvement across a project, a division, or an entire organization. CMMI helps integrate traditionally separate organizational functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes etc.

More now than ever, companies want to deliver products better, faster, and cheaper. At the same time, in the high-technology environment that all organizations have found themselves building more and more complex products. Today, a single company usually does not develop all the components that compose a product.

Many organizations have also found themselves in the software business. Organizations that were not typically software companies-such as financial institutions, car manufacturers, airplane manufacturers, and insurance companies-find that much of their business relies on software. Software is often what differentiates them from their competitors. The problems these organizations address today involve both software and systems engineering. In essence, these organizations are product developers that need to manage an integrated approach to their software and systems engineering as part of reaching their business objectives.

There are a no. of process improvement models, standards methodologies available to chose from. SEI's Capability Maturity Model® for Software (SW-CMM®), which focuses on software processes, and the EIA's Systems Engineering Capability Model (SECM), which focuses systems engineering processes. However the large multi product organizations find it difficult to implement these models separately, both in terms of compatibility and institutionalization.

Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI®) has emerged as a model that can address this issue by providing a set of practices that have components of all the disciplines that a large product development company can require. CMMI consists of best practices that address product development and maintenance. It addresses practices that cover the product's life cycle from conception through delivery and maintenance. There is an emphasis on both systems engineering and software engineering and the integration necessary to build and maintain the total product. There are also process areas, which are specifically for Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) and Supplier Sourcing (SS).

CMM® and Capability Maturity Model are registered in the US Patent and Trademark office. SEISM, CMMISM, Capability Maturity Model Integration SM, SEPGSM, SCAMPISM are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University