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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