Select and evaluate work products from the supplier of custom-made products

The scope of this specific practice is limited to suppliers providing the project with custom-made products, particularly those that present some risk to the program due to complexity or criticality. The intent of this specific practice is to evaluate selected work products produced by the supplier to help detect issues as early as possible that may affect the supplier's ability to satisfy the requirements of the agreement. The work products selected for evaluation should include critical products, product components, and work products that provide insight into quality issues as early as possible. Read more »

Deploy the organization’s set of standard processes to projects at their startup and deploy changes to them as appropriate throughout the life of each project

It is important that new projects use proven and effective processes to perform critical early activities (e.g., project planning, receiving requirements, and obtaining resources).

Projects should also periodically update their defined processes to incorporate the latest changes made to the organization’s set of standard processes when it will benefit them. This periodic updating helps to ensure that all project activities derive the full benefit of what other projects have learned.

Refer to the Organizational Process Definition process area for more information about the organization’s set of standard processes and tailoring guidelines. Read more »

Establish and maintain the process-performance models for the organization’s set of standard processes

Process-performance models are used to estimate or predict the value of a process-performance measure from the values of other process, product, and service measurements. These process-performance models typically use process and product measurements collected throughout the life of the project to estimate progress toward achieving objectives that cannot be measured until later in the project’s life.

The process-performance models are used as follows: Read more »

Establish and maintain the organization's process-performance baselines

The organization’s process-performance baselines are a measurement of performance for the organization’s set of standard processes at various levels of detail, as appropriate. The processes include the following:

• Sequence of connected processes
• Processes that cover the entire life of the project
• Processes for developing individual work products

There may be several process-performance baselines to characterize performance for subgroups of the organization.

Examples of criteria used to categorize subgroups include the following: Read more »

Establish and maintain quantitative objectives for quality and process performance for the organization

The organization’s quality and process-performance objectives should have the following attributes:

• Based on the organization’s business objectives
• Based on the past performance of projects
• Defined to gauge process performance in areas such as product quality, productivity, cycle time, or response time
• Constrained by the inherent variability or natural bounds of the selected process or subprocess

Typical Work Products

• Organization's quality and process-performance objectives

Subpractices

1. Review the organization’s business objectives related to quality and process performance.

Examples of business objectives include the following: Read more »

IPPD only: 
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