Continuous representation is the approach used in the SECM and the IPD-CMM. This approach allows an ORGANIZATION to select a specific process area and make improvements based on it. The continuous representation uses Capability Levels to characterize improvement relative to an individual process area.

• Allows you to select the order of improvement that best meets your organization's business objectives and mitigates your organization's areas of risk.
• Enables comparisons across and among ORGANIZATIONS on a process-area-by-process-area basis.
• Provides an easy MIGRATION from EIA 731 (and other models with a continuous representation) to CMMI.

THUS Continuous Representation provides flexibility to organizations to choose the processes for improvement, as well as the amount of improvement required.

Continuous representation is the approach used in the SECM and the IPD-CMM. This approach allows an organization to select a specific process area and make improvements based on it. The continuous representation uses Capability Levels to characterize improvement relative to an individual process area.

Thus Continuous Representation provides flexibility to organizations to choose the processes for improvement, as well as the amount of improvement required.