If you subscribe to IExplore (the IEEE digital library) ,they have pretty comprehensive resources related to software process improvement (CMM, CMMI, SPICE and it's successor). You can also search the US Mil. Software Technology Support Center. They used to have some fine resources on CMM. My experience with CMM implementation (been involved in it twice - once in Scotland, once in Ireland), have been nothing short of painful. It generates more paperwork than imagined and as far as I have been able to see, the benefits were negligible (if you are involved in ordinary software developments) . It certainly gives you a boasting right, but unless you are involved in real mission critical software developments (like avionics (as was the case in Ireland), hospital equipment automation), it is more trouble than it is worth. It simply adds more layers and bureaucracy. But for high reliability software development (where failures can't be tolerated), CMM is indeed useful. My experience has been, even though once a company attains a certain maturity level, a sort of fatigue sets in things start sliding down their own merry way. cheers Brat