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

This guidebook helps acquisition organizations formulate questions for their suppliers related to CMMI. It also helps organizations interpret responses to identify and evaluate risks for a given supplier.

Standards-Based Automated Remediation: A Remediation Manager Reference Implementation

This report describes the Software Engineering Institute's 2010 work to develop standards for vulnerability and compliance remediation on Department of Defense networked systems.

A Framework for Evaluating Common Operating Environments: Piloting, Lessons Learned, and Opportunities

This report explores the interdependencies among common language, business goals, and soft-ware architecture as the basis for a common framework for conducting evaluations of software technical solutions.

Success in Acquisition: Using Archetypes to Beat the Odds

This report describes key elements in systems thinking, provides an introduction to general systems archetypes, and applies these concepts to the software acquisition domain.

Acquisition Archetypes: Happy Path Testing

When time and budget are tight, it's tempting to follow the "happy path" in testing. But be careful: it may be a path that brings your program great unhappiness.