ISO
          ISO (International Organization for 
Standardization) is the world's largest developer of 
standards. Although ISO's principal activity is the 
development of technical standards, ISO standards also have 
important economic and social repercussions. ISO standards 
make a positive difference, not just to engineers and 
manufacturers for whom they solve basic problems in 
production and distribution, but to society as a whole. 
    The International Standards which ISO develops are very 
useful. They are useful to industrial and business 
organizations of all types, to governments and other 
regulatory bodies, to trade officials, to conformity 
assessment professionals, to suppliers and customers of 
products and services in both public and private sectors, 
and, ultimately, to people in general in their roles as 
consumers and end users.
CMM
        The Capability Maturity Model for Software (CMM) is 
a framework that describes the key elements of an effective 
software process. There are CMMs for non software processes 
as well, such as Business Process Management (BPM). 
        The CMM describes an evolutionary improvement path 
from an ad hoc, immature process to a mature, disciplined 
process. The CMM covers practices for planning, 
engineering, and managing software development and 
maintenance. When followed, these key practices improve the 
ability of organizations to meet goals for cost, schedule, 
functionality, and product quality. The CMM establishes a 
yardstick against which it is possible to judge, in a 
repeatable way, the maturity of an organization's software 
process and compare it to the state of the practice of the 
industry. The CMM can also be used by an organization to 
plan improvements to its software process. It also reflects 
the needs of individuals performing software process, 
improvement, software process assessments, or software 
capability evaluations; is documented; and is publicly 
available.