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

Organizational Process Focus: A Process Management Process Area at Maturity Level 3

Purpose

The purpose of Organizational Process Focus (OPF) is to plan, implement, and deploy organizational process improvements based on a thorough understanding of current strengths and weaknesses of the organization’s processes and process assets.

Tip

The many organizational approaches possible for structuring acquisition offices and positioning process improvement programs within them makes this process area vitally important for pursuing CMMI-ACQ beyond the basic acquisition best practices found in the CMMI-ACQ Primer at www.sei.cmu.edu/library/abstracts/reports/08tr010.cfm.

Introductory Notes

The organization’s processes include all processes used by ...