Software Acquisition Risk Management Key Process Area (KPA): A Guidebook Version 1.02

In this guidebook, we provide sponsors of acquisition improvement programs and their immediate staff with guidelines on how to implement a software acquisition risk management program satisfying the goals of the Acquisition Risk Management (ARM) Key Process Area (KPA) of the Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model (SA-CMM). Brief overviews of software acquisition and the SA-CMM are included. This version is an editorial update to align with Version 1.02 of the SA-CMM.

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Author

Brian P. Gallagher

This report is related to the following area(s) of work:

Acquisition Support

Handbook
CMU/SEI-99-HB-001
October 1999

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SEI:

Gallagher, Brian; Software Acquisition Risk Management Key Process Area (KPA): A Guidebook Version 1.02 (CMU/SEI-99-HB-001). Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/99hb001.cfm

IEEE:

B. Gallagher, "Software Acquisition Risk Management Key Process Area (KPA): A Guidebook Version 1.02," Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Handbook CMU/SEI-99-HB-001, 1999. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/99hb001.cfm

APA:

Gallagher, B., (1999). Software Acquisition Risk Management Key Process Area (KPA): A Guidebook Version 1.02 (CMU/SEI-99-HB-001). Retrieved May 18, 2013, from the Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University website: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/99hb001.cfm

CHI:

Gallagher, Brian, Software Acquisition Risk Management Key Process Area (KPA): A Guidebook Version 1.02 (CMU/SEI-99-HB-001). Pittsburgh, PA: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 1999. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/99hb001.cfm

MLA:

Gallagher, B., 1999. Software Acquisition Risk Management Key Process Area (KPA): A Guidebook Version 1.02 (Technical Report CMU/SEI-99-HB-001). Pittsburgh: Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/99hb001.cfm

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