Mark C. Paulk, Charles V. Weber, Bill Curtis, Marc C. Paulk - The first part of the book describes the evolution of the CMM (Capability Maturity Model), the concepts of software process maturity, the structure of the model, how to interpret and use it, and the case study of IBM Houston. The second part consists of the key practices of the CMM, which describe the software management engineering practices of a maturing software process. Also includes a number of useful appendices. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.