Contents
Foreword—A Commercial Perspective
Foreword—A Government Perspective
Part One—About CMMI for Acquisition
About Capability Maturity 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
Capability Level 4: Quantitatively Managed
Capability Level 5: Optimizing
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. Using CMMI-ACQ in Government
Critical Issues in Government Acquisition
“Big A” versus “Little a” Acquisition
System of Systems Acquisition Challenges
Acquisition Strategy: Planning for Success
Agreements: They Are Not Just with Suppliers
Acquisition Verification: The Challenges
Transition to Operations: Delivering Value
CMMI: The Heart of the U.S. Air Force’s Systems Engineering Assessment Model
Acquisition Improvement: Identifying and Removing Process Constraints
Case Study: Combining CMMI and the Theory of Constraints
7. Using CMMI-ACQ in Industry: General Motors Case Study
Overview of GM Information Systems & Services (IS&S)
System Delivery Factory: An Acquisition Organization
Governance of the System Development Factory
Aligning the GM System Delivery Process to CMMI-ACQ
Realizing Value from the CMMI-ACQ at GM
Acquisition Requirements Development
Project Planning and Project Monitoring and Control
Solicitation and Supplier Agreement Development
Acquisition Technical Management
GM to CMMI-ACQ Practice Mapping
Managing Process Deployment and Change
Integrated Tools Enable High-Performance Acquisition
Conducting Appraisals to Drive Change
Aligning Supplier Relationships
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 Innovation and Deployment
Organizational Process Definition
Organizational Process Performance
Project Monitoring and Control
Process and Product Quality Assurance
Quantitative Project Management
Solicitation and Supplier Agreement Development
Part Three—The Appendices and Glossary
Initial Draft Development Team