Finally, assessments involve inculcating the plateau-sensitive logic of planned process improvement into company planning. There are many ways that an organization’s action planning team can prioritize the introduction of improvements. But in immature organizations, few of them are sensitive to the knowledge contained in process improvement models about what software development processes must be in place before others can reliably function. Assessments integrate into an organization’s own process of self-analysis an understanding of what software process improvement levels call maturity levelsthat is, an awareness that unless management practices are made more predictable (the work of Level 2 in the CMMI), then sophisticated improvements in the organization’s technical practices often will not work.