Contents
PART ONE—ABOUT CMMI FOR ACQUISITION
About Capability Maturity Models
Core Process Areas and CMMI Models
Required, Expected, and Informative Components
Components Associated with Part Two
Specific Goal and Practice Summaries
Supporting Informative Components
Structures of the Continuous and Staged Representations
Understanding Capability Levels
Capability Level 0: Incomplete
Advancing Through Capability Levels
Maturity Level 4: Quantitatively Managed
Advancing Through Maturity Levels
4 RELATIONSHIPS AMONG PROCESS AREAS
Your Process Improvement Program
Selections That Influence Your Program
Appraisal Requirements for CMMI
6 ESSAYS ON CMMI-ACQ IN GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY
Critical Issues in Government Acquisition
“Big A” Versus “Little a” Acquisition
Continuing Acquisition Reform in the Department of Defense
Systems-of-Systems Acquisition Challenges
Transition from Advisor to Integrator and Sustainer
Industry Process Standards and Models
Lessons Learned by DGA on CMMI-ACQ
General Context and Motivations for CMMI-ACQ
CMMI Level 2 Certification Project
CMMI-ACQ As the Driver for an Integrated Systems Engineering Process Applied to “Systems of Systems”
CMMI-ACQ and the “Three R’s” of DoD Acquisition
Use of CMMI at the U.S. Government Accountability Office
An Industry Perspective on CMMI-ACQ
Preferred Supplier Dos and Don’ts
What Industry Needs from the Next CMMI-ACQ Model
CMMI-ACQ in Industry: Future Possibilities
Acquisition Strategy: Planning for Success
Agreements: They Are Not Just with Suppliers
Acquisition Verification: The Challenges
Transition to Operations: Delivering Value
Integrating Aspects of Interoperability
Employing Agile in DoD Acquisition
Acquisition Improvement: Identifying and Removing Process Constraints
Case Study: Combining CMMI and the Theory of Constraints
Expanding Capabilities Across the Constellations
PART TWO—GENERIC GOALS AND GENERIC PRACTICES, AND THE PROCESS AREAS
GENERIC GOALS AND GENERIC PRACTICES
ACQUISITION REQUIREMENTS DEVELOPMENT
ACQUISITION TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT
CAUSAL ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
DECISION ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS DEFINITION
ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS PERFORMANCE
PROJECT MONITORING AND CONTROL
PROCESS AND PRODUCT QUALITY ASSURANCE
QUANTITATIVE PROJECT MANAGEMENT
SOLICITATION AND SUPPLIER AGREEMENT DEVELOPMENT