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The U.S. Department of Defense and other parts of the U.S. government use the Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI) for process improvement to reduce the risk of poor performance by its major contractors. Acquisition officials have reported that many of its major programs suffer from cost, schedule, and technical performance problems even though those programs are being implemented by companies which rate high with respect to the CMMI. This paper explores possible reasons why companies with high CMMI ratings can still have significant performance problems and suggests possible remedies.
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Pyster, A. (2006). What Beyond CMMI Is Needed to Help Assure Program and Project Success?. In: Li, M., Boehm, B., Osterweil, L.J. (eds) Unifying the Software Process Spectrum. SPW 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3840. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11608035_8
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