| ABC |
Activity-Based Costing |
| Ada |
Ada |
| ADARTS |
Ada-based Approach for Real-Time Systems |
| CBA-IPI |
CMM®-Based Appraisal for Internal Process Improvement |
| CBASS |
CMM®-Based Assessment Tool |
| CCB |
Configuration Control Board |
| CDARTS |
C++-based Approach for Real-Time Systems |
| CI |
Configuration Item |
| CM |
Configuration Management |
| CMM® |
Capability Maturity Model |
| CMMI® |
Capability Maturity Model Integration |
| COCOMO |
Constructive Cost Model |
| CoRE |
Consortium Requirements Engineering |
| COTS |
Commercial Off-The-Shelf |
| DoD |
Department of Defense |
| EIA/IS |
Electronics Industry Association/Industry Standard |
| EPM |
Enterprise Performance Measurement |
| ESIS |
Engineering Software-Intensive Systems |
| ESP |
Evolutionary Spiral Process |
| IEEE |
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| INCOSE |
International Council on Systems Engineering |
| ISSEP |
Integrated Systems and Software Engineering Process |
| ISO |
International Organization for Standardization |
| IVV |
Integration, Verification and Validation |
| IV&V |
Independent Verification and Validation |
| KPA |
Key Process Area |
| MIL-STD |
Military Standard |
| OO |
Object-Oriented |
| OOASIS |
Object-Oriented Approach to Software Intensive Systems |
| OOT |
Object-Oriented Technology |
| PI |
Process Improvement |
| PSM |
Practical Software Measurement |
| QA |
Quantitative Assurance |
| QM |
Quantitative Management |
| QPM |
Quantitative Process Management |
| REVIC |
Revised Intermediate COCOMO |
| SA-CMM |
Software Acquisition Capability Maturity Model |
| SAM |
SE-CMM Appraisal Method |
| SCAMPI |
Standard CMMI® Appraisal Method for Process Improvement |
| SCE |
Software Capability Evaluation |
| SDCE |
Software Development Capability Evaluation |
| SE |
Systems Engineering |
| SE-CMM |
Systems Engineering Capability Maturity Model |
| SEI |
Software Engineering Institute |
| SEPG |
Software Engineering Process Group |
| SLIM |
Software Life-Cycle Model |
| SPCT |
Statistical Process Control Techniques |
| SPI |
Systematic Process Improvement |
| SQA |
Software Quality Assurance |