Use of CMMI in Acquisition Environments.pdf

Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Use of CMMI® in Acquisition
Environments
Brian Gallagher
Lorraine Adams
SEPG
March 6, 2006
SM CMM Integration, IDEAL, and SCAMPI are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University.
® Capability Maturity Model, Capability Maturity Modeling, CMM, and CMMI are registered in the . Patent and Trademark Office
by Carnegie Mellon University.
Sponsored by the . Department of Defense
© 2005 by Carnegie Mellon University
This material is approved for public release.
Tutorial: Use of CMMI® in Acquisition Environments - Page 1
Tutorial Agenda
Introduction
Part 1: Using CMMI to Encourage Good Contractor
Practices
Part 2: Using CMMI-AM to Improve Acquisition
Practices
© 2005 by Carnegie Mellon University Tutorial: Use of CMMI® in Acquisition Environments - Page 2
Introduction
Lack of acquisition guidance is a major concern for projects involved in the
acquisition and sustainment of systems, including software-intensive systems.
Over the past decade, much of the headquarters and field-level acquisition
guidance for systems and software acquisition and sustainment has been
rescinded, simplified, or reduced in scope such that only minimal acquisition-
related guidance remains in many acquisition areas.
This reduction of guidance has occurred as plexity and the
software contribution to overall system functionality rises to unprecedented
levels.
Congressional- and DOD-level guidance continues to emphasize software
acquisition process improvement, including the measurement of process
performance by anizations
The goal of this tutorial is to define effective and efficient acquisition practices,
both directed internally toward the acquisition project and directed externally
toward the monitoring and control of the selected supplier(s). These practices
are intended to provide a basis for acquisition process discipline while
balancing the need for agility.
© 2005 by Carnegie Mellon University Tuto