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CMMI-ACQ: Guidelines for Improving the Acquisition of Products and Services
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CMMI-ACQ: Guidelines for Improving the Acquisition of Products and Services

by Brian P. Gallagher, Mike Phillips, Karen J. Richter, Sandy Shrum
December 2008
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
15h 36m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Foreword: A Government Perspective

I do not often have the pleasure of writing a foreword for an extraordinary piece of work as that presented in this text. What the CMMI-ACQ team has done is unique and offers a tremendous tool to greatly improve the acquisition process within the Department of Defense (DoD). The twenty-first century is challenging our old ways of managing projects and programs—particularly, complex projects and programs. This text provides a method for meeting that challenge.

In my more than 30 years in the DoD acquisition business, I have worked on, reviewed, and assessed countless programs. All successful programs (despite what you may have heard, the successes far outnumber the failures) have a set of common traits that ...

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