Software acquisition management experience learnt in a multi discipline and multi contract project environment

This paper summarizes software acquisition management lessons learnt from a complex multidisciplinary and multi-contract environment. It also identifies a number of new measures for improvement in a current project. These new measures are then analyzed against the key process areas of the Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model^(R) (SA-CMM^(R)) for their applicability and comprehensiveness. Additional effort to fulfil level-2 requirements of the SA-CMM^(R) is also investigated