CMMI® for Acquisition, Second Edition: Guidelines for Improving the Acquisition of Products and Services

Chapter 3. Tying It All Together

Now that you have been introduced to the components of CMMI models, you need to understand how they fit together to meet your process improvement needs. This chapter introduces the concept of levels and shows how the process areas are organized and used.

CMMI-ACQ does not specify that a project or organization must follow a particular acquisition process flow or that a certain number of deliverables per day or specific project performance targets be achieved. The model does specify that a project or organization should have processes that address acquisition related practices. To determine whether these processes are in place, a project or organization maps its processes to the process areas in this model.

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