Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier’s CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers (Revised for V1.3)
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Publisher
Software Engineering Institute
CMU/SEI Report Number
CMU/SEI-2011-TR-023DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
10.1184/R1/6585533.v1Topic or Tag
Abstract
This guidebook is designed to help acquisition organizations formulate questions for their suppliers related to using CMMI. It also helps organizations identify and evaluate risks in supplier processes by explaining how to gather and interpret supplier data throughout the acquisition and then to effectively monitor supplier processes after contract award.
This guidebook helps clarify what high capability and maturity level ratings signify in a development program and describes how acquirers can apply methods that leverage a supplier’s process improvement initiatives; request, understand, interpret, and use supplier appraisal results; and interpret suppliers’ claims of achieving a CMMI rating.
Cite This SEI Report
Osiecki, L., Phillips, M., & Scibilia, J. (2011, September 1). Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier’s CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers (Revised for V1.3). (SEI Report CMU/SEI-2011-TR-023). Retrieved February 10, 2026, from https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6585533.v1.
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Osiecki, Lawrence, Michael Phillips, and John Scibilia. "Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier’s CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers (Revised for V1.3)." (CMU/SEI-2011-TR-023). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, September 1, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6585533.v1.
L. Osiecki, M. Phillips, and J. Scibilia, "Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier’s CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers (Revised for V1.3)," Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library. Software Engineering Institute, SEI Report CMU/SEI-2011-TR-023, 1-Sep-2011 [Online]. Available: https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6585533.v1. [Accessed: 10-Feb-2026].
Osiecki, Lawrence, Michael Phillips, and John Scibilia. "Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier’s CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers (Revised for V1.3)." (SEI Report CMU/SEI-2011-TR-023). Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Digital Library, Software Engineering Institute, 1 Sep. 2011. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6585533.v1. Accessed 10 Feb. 2026.
Osiecki, Lawrence; Phillips, Michael; & Scibilia, John. Understanding and Leveraging a Supplier’s CMMI Efforts: A Guidebook for Acquirers (Revised for V1.3). CMU/SEI-2011-TR-023. Software Engineering Institute. 2011. https://doi.org/10.1184/R1/6585533.v1
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