Service Organizations Jump on the CMMI Bandwagon! 

In March of 2009, Carnegie Mellon’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) will officially release a new CMMI model, dubbed CMMI-SVC, for those organizations in the services industry. These organizations cover a wide net of services and include organizations in the healthcare, educational, financial services maintenance, logistics, Information Technology industries and others.

Why Services, Why Now?

Without a doubt, the numbers, themselves, are compelling. The service sector comprises more than 80 percent of both the American and the global economy. Further, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) spends more than 50 percent of its budget – or $146 billion dollars in FY2006…