Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier's CMMI(Trademark) Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers

Abstract

This guidebook is designed to help acquisition organizations benefit from their suppliers' use of CMMI for Development, which is a collection of best practices that addresses product development and maintenance activities throughout the product lifecycle. This guidebook also helps acquisition organizations avoid problems that can result from unrealistic expectations. High capability and maturity level ratings alone do not guarantee program success. This guidebook helps clarify what those ratings can and cannot do for a development program. It describes how acquirers can - interpret suppliers claims of achieving a CMMI rating - request, understand, interpret, and use supplier appraisal results, and - apply methods that leverage a supplier's process improvement initiatives.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA465951

Entities

People

  • Brian P. Ballagher
  • Gene Miluk
  • Jeffery L. Dutton
  • Joe Wickless
  • Joseph P. Elm
  • Karen J. Richter
  • Lawrence T. Osiecki
  • Linda M. Rosa
  • Mike Nicol
  • Mike Phillips

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Configuration Management
  • Contractors
  • Guarantees
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Science
  • Management Engineering
  • Management Personnel
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Product Development
  • Project Management
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).