Acquisition Support Publications by Type and Date
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Below are SEI publications related to the acquisition of software and software-intensive systems. These documents have been developed by members of the Acquisition Support Program (ASP). However, the SEI has provided hands-on assistance to the acquisition community since 1986. See related materials for additional resources, including publications written prior to the formation of ASP.
Technical Reports, Technical Notes, & Special Reports
2007
Technical Note - Software-Intensive Systems Producibility: A Vision and Roadmap (v 0.1), Campbell, Grady, CMU/SEI-2007-TN-017, December 2007
Special Report - A Survey of Systems Engineering Effectiveness: Initial Results, Elm, Joseph P.; Goldenson, Dennis R.; El Emam, Khaled; Donatelli, Nicole; Neisa, Angelica; and NDIA SE Effectiveness Committee, CMU/SEI-2007-SR-014, November 2007
Technical Report - COTS and Reusable Software Management Planning: A Template for Life-Cycle Management, Anderson, William; Morris, Ed; Smith, Dennis; and Ward, Mary Catherine, CMU/SEI-2007-TR-011, ESC-TR-2007-011, October 2007
Technical Report - Progress Toward an Organic Software Architecture Capability in the U.S. Army, Blanchette, Stephen Jr.; and Bergey, John, CMU/SEI-2007-TR-010, ESC-TR-2007-010, June 2007
Technical Report - Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier's CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers, CMMI Guidebook for Acquirers Team, CMU/SEI-2007-TR-004, ESC-TR-2007-004, March 2007
2006
Technical Note - Quantitative Methods for Software Selection and Evaluation, Bandor, Michael S., CMU/SEI-2006-TN-026, October 2006
Technical Report - Techniques for Developing an Acquisition Strategy by Profiling Software Risks, Ward, Mary Catherine; Elm, Joseph P.; and Kushner, Susan, CMU/SEI-2006-TR-002, August 2006
Handbook - QUASAR: A Method for the QUality Assessment of Software-Intensive System ARchitectures , Firesmith, Donald Firesmith, CMU/SEI-2006-HB-001, August 2006
Technical Note - Specifying Initial Design Review (IDR) and Final Design Review (FDR) Criteria, Lapham, Mary Ann, CMU/SEI-2006-TN-023, June 2006
Technical Note - Requirements Management in a System-of-Systems Context: A Workshop, Meyers. B. Craig; Smith, James D.; Capell, Peter; and Place, Patrick R. H., CMU/SEI-2006-TN-015, June 2006
Technical Note - Sustaining Software-Intensive Systems, Lapham, Mary Ann, CMU/SEI-2006-TN-007, June 2006
Special Report - U.S. Army Acquisition--The Program Office Perspective, Keeler, Kristi L., CMU/SEI-2005-SR-014, May 2006
Technical Note - Common Elements of Risk, Alberts, Christopher J., CMU/SEI-2006-TN-014, April 2006
Technical Note - Acquiring Evolving Technologies: Web Services Standards, Levinson, Harry L. and O'Brien, Liam, CMU/SEI-2006-TN-001, February 2006
Handbook - Software Acquisition Planning Guidelines, Editor: Novak, William E. Contributors: Cohen, Julie B.; Lattanze, Anthony J.; Levine, Linda; Novak, William E.; Place, Patrick R. H.; Williams, Ray C.; and Woody, Carol, CMU/SEI-2005-HB-006, February 2006
2005
Handbook - Handbook for Conducting Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) B and C Appraisals, Version 1.1, Hayes, Will; Miluk, Gene; Ming, Lisa; Glover, Margaret; and members of the SCAMPI B and C Project, CMU/SEI-2005-HB-005, December 2005
Technical Note - Integrated Diagnostics: Operational Missions, Diagnostic Types, Characteristics, and Capability Gaps, Marz, Theodore F., CMU/SEI-2005-TN-035, October 2005
Technical Note - A Taxonomy of Operational Risks, Gallagher, Brian P.; Case, Pamela J.; Creel, Rita C.; Kushner, Susan; and Williams, Ray C., CMU/SEI-2005-TN-036, September 2005
Technical Report - Designing for Reuse of Configurable Logic, Elm, Joseph P., CMU/SEI-2005-TR-016, July 2005
Technical Note - Self-Assessment and the CMMI-AM -- A Guide for Government Program Managers, Blanchette, Stephen, Jr. and Keeler, Kristi, CMU/SEI-2005-TN-004, May 2005
Technical Report - CMMI Acquisition Module (CMMI-AM), Version 1.1, Bernard, Tom; Gallagher, Brian; Bate, Roger; and Wilson, Hal, CMU/SEI-2005-TR-011, ESC-TR-2005-011, May 2005
Technical Note - Robustness Testing of Software-Intensive Systems: Explanation and Guide, Cohen, Julie; Plakosh, Dan; and Keeler, Kristi, CMU/SEI-2005-TN-015, May 2005
Technical Report - Including Interoperability in the Acquisition Process, Meyers, B. Craig; Monarch, Ira A.; Levine, Linda; and Smith, James D., CMU/SEI-2005-TR-004, ESC-TR-2005-004, April 2005
Special Report - U.S. Army Acquisition--The Program Executive Officer Perspective, Blanchette, Stephen, Jr., CMU/SEI-2005-SR-002, March 2005
2004
Technical Note - Risk Based Diagnostics, Williams, Ray C.; Ambrose, Kate: Bentrem, Laura; and Merendino, Tom, CMU/SEI-2004-TN-013, November 2004
Technical Note - A Roadmap of Risk Diagnostic Methods: Developing an Integrated View of Risk Identification and Analysis Techniques, Williams, Ray C.; Ambrose, Kate; and Bentrem, Laura, CMU/SEI-2004-TN-002, November 2004
Special Report - Benefits of Improvement Efforts, Capell, Peter, CMU/SEI-2004-SR-010, October 2004
Technical Report - Results of SEI Independent Research and Development Projects and Report on Emerging Technologies and Technology Trends, Bergey, John; Dietrich, Sven; Firesmith, Donald; Forrester, Eileen; Jordan, Angel; Kazman, Rick; Lewis, Grace; Lipson, Howard; Mead, Nancy; Morris, Ed; O'Brien, Liam; Siviy, Jeannine; Smith, Dennis; and Woody, Carol CMU/SEI-2004-TR-018, ESC-TR-2004-018, October 2004
Technical Report - Advanced Engineering Environments for Small Manufacturing Enterprises: Volume II , Fenves, Steven J.; Sriram, Ram D.; Choi, Young; Elm, Joseph P.; and Robert, John E., CMU/SEI-2004-TR-0007, May 2004
Technical Report - Systems of Systems Interoperability, Morris, Edwin; Levine, Linda; Meyers, Craig; Place, Pat; and Plakosh, Dan, CMU/SEI-2004-TR-004, ESC-TR-2004-004, April 2004
Technical Report - Working with Small Manufacturing Enterprises: An Analysis of TIDE Demonstration Projects, Estrin, Len; Anderson, William; Elm, Joseph P.; Garcia, Suzanne; Foreman, John; Robert, John; Schenker, Fred, CMU/SEI-2004-TR-005, ESC-TR-2004-005, February 2004
2003
Technical Report - Advanced Engineering Environments for Small Manufacturing Enterprises: Volume I, Fenves, Steven J.; Sriram, Ram D.; Choi, Young; Elm, Joseph P.; Robert, John E., CMU/SEI-2003-TR-013, ESC-TR-2003-013, December 2003
Technical Note - Common Concepts Underlying Safety, Security, and Survivability Engineering , Firesmith, Donald, CMU/SEI-2003-TN-033, December 2003
Technical Note - What About Ada? The State of the Technology in 2003, Smith, Jim, CMU/SEI-2003-TN-021, Revised September 2003
Technical Report - Integration of Computer-Aided Design and Finite Element Analysis Tools in a Small Manufacturing Enterprise, Elm, Joseph P. and Robert, John E., CMU/SEI-2003-TR-025, ESC-TR-2003-015, July 2003
Technical Note - Proceedings of the System of Systems Interoperability Workshop, Levine, Linda; Meyers, B. Craig; Morris, Ed; Place, Patrick R. H.; Plakosh, Daniel, CMU/SEI-2003-TN-016, June 2003
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Articles
2007
Assuring Software Systems Security: Life Cycle Considerations for Government Acquisitions. Creel, Rita; Build Security In, June 2007
Acquisition Overview: The Challenges. Ellison, Bob & Creel, Rita; Build Security In, June 2007
Quality Assessment Of System Architectures and Their Requirements (QUASAR). Firesmith, Donald G.; and Capell, Peter S., Transactions of the Society for Design and Process Science, 11 (12), June 2007
2006
High-Speed Software Development Practices: What Works, What Doesn't, Baskerville, Richard; Ramesh, Balasubramaniam; Levine, Linda; and Pries-Heje, Jan, IT Professional, Internet Software, 8 (4), July-August 2006
2005
Column, CMMI in Focus, Using CMMI with Suppliers - the Acquirer's Concerns Phillips, Mike, SEI, news@sei, 2005
2004
The High Speed Balancing Game, How Software Companies Cope with Internet Speed (PDF), Pries-Heje, Jan, IT University of Copenhagen; Baskerville, Richard, Georgia State University; Levine, Linda, SEI; and Balasubramaniam, Ramesh, Georgia State University, originally published in the Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, vol 16, pp. 12-54, 2004.
Improving Software Intensive Systems for Our Warfighters, Langhout, Jacquelyn and Reed, Lee Scott, Army AL&T, November-December 2004, pp. 35-37
Benchmarking for Improvement in Army Acquisition, Blanchette, Jr., Stephen and Keeler, Kristi L., news@sei, 2004, Number 3
Transforming Army Acquisition, Blanchette, Jr., Stephen, Army AL&T, July-August 2004, pp. 82-85
Applying CMMI to Systems Acquisition, Gallagher, Brian P. and Shrum, Sandra, SEI, CrossTalk, August 2004
2003
Is Internet-Speed Software Development Different? November-December issue of IEEE Software by Baskerville, Richard; Ramesh, Balasubramaniam, Georgia State University; Levine, Linda, SEI; Pries-Heje, Jan, IT University of Copenhagen; and Slaughter, Sandra, Carnegie Mellon University, 2003
The Software Engineering Institute Focuses Expertise on the Transformation of Army Acquisition, September - December issue of Program Manager by Blanchette, Stephen, Jr., 2003
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Conference & Workshop Papers
2005
Using the OPEN Process Framework to Produce a Situation-Specific Requirements Engineering Method (PDF), Zowghi, D. and Henderson-Selliers, B., University of Technology, Sydney, Austraila; and Firesmith, Donald G., SEI, International Workshop on Situational Requirements Engineering Processes – Methods, Techniques and Tools to Support Situation-Specific Requirements Engineering Processes (SREP-2005), August 29-30, 2005
Analyzing the Security Significance of Systems Requirements (PDF), Firesmith, Donald G., SEI, Symposium on Requirements Engineering for Information Security (SREIS 2005), August 29-30, 2005.
A Taxonomy of Security-Related Requirements (PDF file), Firesmith, Donald G., SEI, International Workshop on High Assurance Systems (RHAS'05 - Paris), August 29-30, 2005
Method Engineering and COTS Evaluation (PDF), Henderson-Sellers, B; Gonzaled-Perez, C.; Serour, M.K. University of Technology, Sydney, Australia; and Firesmith, Donald G. SEI, Second International Workshop on Models and Processes for the Evaluation of off-the-shelf Components (MPEC'05), Saint Louis, Missouri, May 21, 2005
Reflections on Software Agility and Agile Methods: Challenges, Dilemmas and the Way Ahead (keynote) (PDF file), Levine, Linda, SEI (2005). In Mathiassen, L. & Pries-Heje, J. (Eds.). IFIP TC 8 WG 8.6 International Working Conference, Business Agility and Information Technology Diffusion (pp. 353-365), May 8-11, 2005, Atlanta, Georgia: Springer Science + Business Media.
2004
Software Patents: Innovation or Litigation? (PDF file), Levine, Linda. SEI, and Saunders, Kurt. M., CSU, at the IFIP 8.6 Working Conference: IT Innovation for Adaptiveness and Competitive Advantage, May 31-June 2, 2004, Leixlip, Ireland
2003
Networked Technologies: The Role of Networks in the Diffusion and Adoption of Software Process Improvement (SPI) Approaches (PDF file) , Kautz, Karlheinz, Copenhagen Business School; Levine, Linda, SEI; Hefley, Bill, Carnegie Mellon University; Johansen, Jørn, DELTA; Carsten Højmose Kristensen, Systematic Software Engineering A/S; and Nielsen, Peter Axel, Aalborg University, IFIP 8.6 Working Conference on the Diffusion and Adoption of Networked Information Technologies (pp. 203-211), 2003, Copenhagen, Denmark. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Analyzing and Specifying Reusable Security Requirements (PDF file), Firesmith, Donald G., SEI, at the 11th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'2003) Requirements for High Assurance Systems (RHAS) Workshop, Monterey, California, September 2003
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