From the course: CISA Cert Prep: 2 Information Technology Governance and Management for IS Auditors
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Maturity models
From the course: CISA Cert Prep: 2 Information Technology Governance and Management for IS Auditors
Maturity models
- [Instructor] All right, let's talk about maturity models. So what is a maturity model? Well, it's essentially a method for process optimization. It's a method for improving some process, whatever it is, building some software, developing a widget, selling a service, whatever that process is, it's a way for constantly trying to improve it over time. And it tends to be a set of levels or maturity levels that describe the practices that have to be performed to achieve each level of maturity. Now what it's used for is it's a way to sort of periodically measure the improvement of a process. Are we getting better at doing this thing, at, let's just say, building the software, like a software development life cycle, CMM, for example, a capability maturity model? It's a framework for assessing the people, the processes and/or technology involved in getting something done, like building a software application. And it is a good…
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