Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier's CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers (Revised for V1.3)

Abstract

This guidebook is designed to help acquisition organizations formulate questions for their suppliers related to using CMMI. It also helps organizations identify and evaluate risks in supplier processes by explaining how to gather and interpret supplier data throughout the acquisition and then to effectively monitor supplier processes after contract award. This guidebook helps clarify what high capability and maturity level ratings signify in a development program and describes how acquirers can apply methods that leverage a supplier's process improvement initiatives; request, understand, interpret, and use supplier appraisal results; and interpret suppliers' claims of achieving a CMMI rating.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA611069

Entities

People

  • John Scibilia
  • Lawrence T. Osiecki
  • Mike Phillips

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Configuration Management
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Science
  • Management Engineering
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Organizational Structure
  • Product Development
  • Project Management
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).