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Acquisition Oversight as a Function of Program Office Capability

Presentation
This presentation was delivered by George R. Winters in January 2004.
Publisher

Software Engineering Institute

Subjects

Abstract

The speaker concludes that:

  • Acquisition-focused maturity models should be supported, adopted, and evolved.
  • Mini-assessments based on acquisition-focused maturity models could contribute to significantly enhanced acquisition oversight.
  • The effort associated with mini-assessments as an oversight methodology is no greater than and may be less than, the effort associated with document-based oversight.
  • Risk-based oversight is possible using the results of mini-assessments as the basis for determining the risk associated with the program office's capability.