Software Engineering Institute Carnegie Mellon

Software Acquisition Risk Management Key Process Area (KPA)--A Guidebook Version 1.0

Brian Gallagher
Christopher Alberts
Richard Barbour

Handbook

CMU/SEI-97-HB-002

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In this guidebook, we hope to 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.