Establish Organizational Process Assets (User Story)

Purpose:

Establish an organization’s process assets that can be used to improve portfolio, program and project success..

Objective:

Define artifacts that relate to describing, implementing, and improving processes.

Description:

Organizational process assets are artifacts that relate to describing, implementing, and improving processes. These artifacts are assets because they are developed or acquired to meet the business objectives of the organization and they represent investments by the organization that are expected to provide current and future business value.
The organization’s set of standard processes, which are the basis of the defined process, are established and improved over time. Standard processes describe the fundamental process elements that are expected in the defined processes. Standard processes also describe the relationships (e.g., the ordering, the interfaces) among these process elements. The organization-level infrastructure to support current and future use of the organization’s set of standard processes is established and improved over time.

Inputs:

• CMMI for Development
• CMMI for Services
• CMMI for Acquisition
• People Capability Maturity Model
• COBIT
• ITIL

Outputs:

• Standard Processes
  • Causal Analysis and Resolution (CAR)
  • Configuration Management (CM)
  • Decision Analysis and Resolution (DAR)
  • Integrated Project Management (IPM)
  • Measurement and Analysis (MA)
  • Organizational Process Definition (OPD)
  • Organizational Process Focus (OPF)
  • Organizational Performance Management (OPM)
  • Organizational Process Performance (OPP)
  • Organizational Training (OT)
  • Product Integration (PI)
  • Project Monitoring and Control (PMC)
  • Project Planning (PP)
  • Process and Product Quality Assurance (PPQA)
  • Quantitative Project Management (QPM)
  • Requirements Development (RD)
  • Requirements Management (REQM)
  • Risk Management (RSKM)
  • Supplier Agreement Management (SAM)
  • Technical Solution (TS)
  • Validation(VAL)
  • Verification (VER)
• Lifecycle Model Descriptions
  • Agile
  • Evolutionary Model
  • Incremental Model
  • Spiral Model
  • Waterfall Model
  • Git-R-Done
• Tailoring Criteria and Guidelines
• Organization’s Measurement Repository
• Organization’s Process Asset Library
• Work Environment Standards
• Rules and Guidelines for Team
  • Scrum Rules of Engagement

Controls:

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Task Instructions:

Establish Standard Processes

1. 1. Decompose each standard process into constituent process elements to the detail needed to understand and describe the process.
   2. Specify the critical attributes of each process element.
   3. Specify relationships among process elements.
   4. Ensure that the organization’s set of standard processes adheres to applicable policies, standards, and models.
   5. Ensure that the organization’s set of standard processes satisfies process needs and objectives of the organization.
   6. Ensure that there is appropriate integration among processes that are included in the organization’s set of standard processes.
   7. Document the organization’s set of standard processes.
   8. Conduct peer reviews on the organization’s set of standard processes
   9. Revise the organization’s set of standard processes as necessary

Establish Lifecycle Model Descriptions

1. 1. Select lifecycle models based on the needs of projects and the organization.
   2. Document descriptions of lifecycle models.
   3. Conduct peer reviews on lifecycle models.
   4. Revise the descriptions of lifecycle models as necessary.

Establish Tailoring Criteria and Guidelines

1. 1. Specify selection criteria and procedures for tailoring the organization’s set of standard processes.
   2. Specify the standards used for documenting defined processes.
   3. Specify the procedures used for submitting and obtaining approval of waivers from the organization’s set of standard processes.
   4. Document tailoring guidelines for the organization’s set of standard processes.
   5. Conduct peer reviews on the tailoring guidelines.
   6. Revise tailoring guidelines as necessary.

Establish the Organization’s Measurement Repository

1. 1. Determine the organization’s needs for storing, retrieving, and analyzing measurements.
   2. Define a common set of process and product measures for the organization’s set of standard processes.
   3. Design and implement the measurement repository.
   4. Specify procedures for storing, updating, and retrieving measures.
   5. Conduct peer reviews on definitions of the common set of measures and procedures for storing, updating, and retrieving measures.
   6. Enter specified measures into the repository.
   7. Make the contents of the measurement repository available for use by the organization and projects as appropriate.
   8. Revise the measurement repository, the common set of measures, and procedures as the organization’s needs change.

Establish the Organization’s Process Asset Library

1. 1. Design and implement the organization’s process asset library, including the library structure and support environment.
   2. Specify criteria for including items in the library.
   3. Specify procedures for storing, updating, and retrieving items.
   4. Enter selected items into the library and catalog them for easy reference and retrieval.
   5. Make items available for use by projects.
   6. Periodically review the use of each item.
   7. Revise the organization’s process asset library as necessary.

Establish Work Environment Standards

1. 1. Evaluate commercially available work environment standards appropriate for the organization.
   2. Adopt existing work environment standards and develop new ones to fill gaps based on the organization’s process needs and objectives.

Establish Rules and Guidelines for Teams

1. 1. Establish and maintain empowerment mechanisms to enable timely decision making.
   2. Establish and maintain rules and guidelines for structuring and forming teams.
   3. Define the expectations, rules, and guidelines that guide how teams work collectively.