Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier's CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers
This guidebook is designed to help acquisition organizations benefit from their suppliers' use of CMMI for Development, which is a collection of best practices that addresses product development and maintenance activities throughout the product lifecycle. This guidebook also helps acquisition organizations avoid problems that can result from unrealistic expectations.
High capability and maturity level ratings alone do not guarantee program success. This guidebook helps clarify what those ratings can and cannot do for a development program. It describes how acquirers can
- interpret suppliers claims of achieving a CMMI rating
- request, understand, interpret, and use supplier appraisal results
- apply methods that leverage a suppliers process improvement initiatives.
Technical Report
CMU/SEI-2007-TR-004
March 2007
Cite This Report
SEI:
CMMI Guidebook for Acquirers Team, ; Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier's CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers (CMU/SEI-2007-TR-004). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr004.cfm
IEEE:
. CMMI Guidebook for Acquirers Team, "Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier's CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Technical Report CMU/SEI-2007-TR-004, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr004.cfm
APA:
CMMI Guidebook for Acquirers Team, ., (2007). Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier's CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers (CMU/SEI-2007-TR-004). Retrieved May 23, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr004.cfm
CHI:
CMMI Guidebook for Acquirers Team, , Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier's CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers (CMU/SEI-2007-TR-004). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 2007. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr004.cfm
MLA:
CMMI Guidebook for Acquirers Team, ., 2007. Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier's CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers (Technical Report CMU/SEI-2007-TR-004). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/07tr004.cfm
Please note that current and future CMMI research, training, and information has been transitioned to the CMMI Institute, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Carnegie Mellon University.
Find Us Here
Share This Page
For more information
