CMMI and BSCC

Since the release of Building Systems from Commercial Components [Wallnau 01] in July of 2001, the design and engineering team from the SEI COTS-Based Systems Initiative has developed the collection of techniques described in that book into a more prescriptive COTS-based systems design process. This evolution has been partially described in this column and other forums and will soon be offered as part of an updated tutorial. However, we have not yet described the relationship between this work and another important SEI product, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) [CMMI 03]. In this column, I examine how this process, newly evolved from Building Systems from Commercial Components (BSCC) techniques, can be used to satisfy portions of the CMMI process model.