They had dramatically lower costs and promoted the use of development standards such as the Capability Maturity Model, genericizing service sales, further transforming the competitive landscape.

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The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has a rating system for developers, called the Capability Maturity Model, that takes into account ability to produce quality software on time and on budget.

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