CMMI for Outsourcing: Guidelines for Software, Systems, and IT Acquisition

Foreword

Set the Scope, Focus the Team, and Deliver Value

When relying on outside suppliers to provide technology solutions, responsibility falls squarely on the acquiring party to define a reasonable set of project expectations, keep the development and operational stakeholders focused on the endgame, and successfully transition newly delivered systems and capabilities into operational use. Government and commercial organizations who depend on suppliers for critical systems continue to find themselves facing cost overruns, schedule breaches, depleted capability or worse, no capability delivered to their users. We must do better. Our obligation as acquisition or outsourcing professionals is to provide our customers with evolutionary (sometimes ...