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The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center established in 1984 by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University. SEI has a broad charter to provide leadership in the practice of software engineering to improve the quality of systems that depend on software. To achieve its mission, SEI identifies needs of its client communities and provides products and services to 1) improve development and maintenance of software-dependent systems, 2) reduce the risk associated with such improvements, and 3) educate others in making such improvements. SEI Capability Maturity Models (CMM) are standards recognized industry-wide, and they are collections of best practices to improve technical and management performance in disciplines that affect software. SEI's CMM for Software describes the principles and practices underlying software process maturity and is intended to help software organizations improve the maturity of their software processes in terms of an evolutionary path from ad hoc, chaotic processes to mature, disciplined software processes. The SEI's goals in developing CMMs include: addressing software and disciplines that have an impact on software, providing integrated process improvement reference models, building broad community consensus, harmonizing with standards, and enabling efficient improvement across disciplines.

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