"Are all documentation, test and code artifacts are under version management, and carry a unique version number, save date, and revision history statement?"
Establish and maintain the integrity of work products using configuration identification, configuration control, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits.
- G1 Establish Baselines
- P1.1 Identify Configuration Items
- P1.2 Establish a Configuration Management System
- P1.3 Create or Release Baselines
- G2 Track and Control Changes
- P2.1 Track Change Requests
- P2.2 Control Configuration Items
- G3 Establish Integrity
- P3.1 Establish Configuration Management Records
- P3.2 Perform Configuration Audits
"Can we trace business requirements to project requirements, to test cases, scripts, components, designs and back?"
Manage the requirements of the project's products and product components and to identify inconsistencies between those requirements and the project's plans and work products.
- G1 Manage Requirements
- P1.1 Obtain an Understanding of Requirements
- P1.2 Obtain Commitment to Requirements
- P1.3 Manage Requirements Changes
- P1.4 Maintain Bidirectional Traceability of Requirements
- P1.5 Identify Inconsistencies between Project Work and Requirements
"Is the scope of work understood and planned for before starting development?"
Establish and maintain plans that define project activities.
- G1 Establish Estimates
- P1.1 Estimate the Scope of the Project
- P1.2 Establish Estimates of Work Product and Task Attributes
- P1.3 Define Project Life Cycle
- P1.4 Determine Estimates of Effort and Cost
- G2 Develop a Project Plan
- P2.1 Establish the Budget and Schedule
- P2.2 Identify Project Risks
- P2.3 Plan for Data Management
- P2.4 Plan for Project Resources
- P2.5 Plan for Needed Knowledge and Skills
- P2.6 Plan Stakeholder Involvement
- P2.7 Establish the Project Plan
- G3 Obtain Commitment to the Plan
- P3.1 Review Plans that Affect the Project
- P3.2 Reconcile Work and Resource Levels
- P3.3 Obtain Plan Commitment
"Is project progress monitored? If a project starts to fall behind do we know what corrective actions to take?"
Provide an understanding of the project's progress so that appropriate corrective actions can be taken when the project's performance deviates significantly from the plan.
- G1 Monitor Project Against Plan
- P1.1 Monitor Project Planning Parameters
- P1.2 Monitor Commitments
- P1.3 Monitor Project Risks
- P1.4 Monitor Data Management
- P1.5 Monitor Stakeholder Involvement
- P1.6 Conduct Progress Reviews
- P1.7 Conduct Milestone Reviews
- G2 Manage Corrective Action to Closure
- P2.1 Analyze Issues
- P2.2 Take Corrective Action
- P2.3 Manage Corrective Action
"Are processes monitored and evaluated during development? Are problems recorded, communicated, and reviewed until project completion?"
Provide staff and management with objective insight into processes and associated work products.
- G1 Objectively Evaluate Processes and Work Products
- P1.1 Objectively Evaluate Processes
- P1.2 Objectively Evaluate Work Products and Services
- G2 Provide Objective Insight
- P2.1 Communicate and Ensure Resolution of Noncompliance Issues
- P2.2 Establish Records
"Are time, cost, scope, quality, and present process maturity periodically reported?"
Develop and sustain a measurement capability that is used to support management information needs.
- G1 Align Measurement and Analysis Activities
- P1.1 Establish Measurement Objectives
- P1.2 Specify Measures
- P1.3 Specify Data Collection and Storage Procedures
- P1.4 Specify Analysis Procedures
- G2 Provide Measurement Results
- P2.1 Collect Measurement Data
- P2.2 Analyze Measurement Data
- P2.3 Store Data and Results
- P2.4 Communicate Results
"Are project stakeholders identified? Do we know what the expected contribution of each stakeholder is?"
Establish and manage the project and the involvement of the relevant stakeholders according to an integrated and defined process that is tailored from the organization's set of standard processes.
Specific Practices by Goal
- G1 Use the Project's Defined Process
- P1.1 Establish the Project's Defined Process
- P1.2 Use Organizational Process Assets for Planning Project Activities
- P1.3 Establish the Project's Work Environment
- P1.4 Integrate Plans
- P1.5 Manage the Project Using the Integrated Plans
- P1.6 Contribute to the Organizational Process Assets
- G2 Coordinate and Collaborate with Relevant Stakeholders
- P2.1 Manage Stakeholder Involvement
- P2.2 Manage Dependencies
- P2.3 Resolve Coordination Issues
"Is there a process defined for packaging all the components (hardware, software, enclosure, etc) and delivering it to a customer? Do we have a way to test finished products before we ship them to a customer?"
Assemble the product from the product components, ensure that the product, as integrated, functions properly, and deliver the product.
Specific Practices by Goal
- G1 Prepare for Product Integration
- P1.1 Determine Integration Sequence
- P1.2 Establish the Product Integration Environment
- P1.3 Establish Product Integration Procedures and Criteria
- G2 Ensure Interface Compatibility
- P2.1 Review Interface Descriptions for Completeness
- P2.2 Manage Interfaces
- G3 Assemble Product Components and Deliver the Product
- P3.1 Confirm Readiness of Product Components for Integration
- P3.2 Assemble Product Components
- P3.3 Evaluate Assembled Product Components
- P3.4 Package and Deliver the Product or Product Component
"Are requirements defined, understood, and documented? Are interfaces documented before starting development?"
Produce and analyze customer, product, and product-component requirements.
Specific Practices by Goal
- G1 Develop Customer Requirements
- P1.1 Elicit Needs
- P1.2 Develop the Customer Requirements
- G2 Develop Product Requirements
- P2.1 Establish Product and Product-Component Requirements
- P2.2 Allocate Product-Component Requirements
- P2.3 Identify Interface Requirements
- G3 Analyze and Validate Requirements
- P3.1 Establish Operational Concepts and Scenarios
- P3.2 Establish a Definition of Required Functionality
- P3.3 Analyze Requirements
- P3.4 Analyze Requirements to Achieve Balance
- P3.5 Validate Requirements
"Are risks identified and tracked so they can be mitigated as the project moves forward?"
Identify potential problems before they occur so that risk-handling activities can be planned and invoked as needed across the life of the product or project to mitigate adverse impacts on achieving objectives.
- G1 Prepare for Risk Management
- P1.1 Determine Risk Sources and Categories
- P1.2 Define Risk Parameters
- P1.3 Establish a Risk Management Strategy
- G2 Identify and Analyze Risks
- P2.1 Identify Risks
- P2.2 Evaluate, Categorize, and Prioritize Risks
- G3 Mitigate Risks
- P3.1 Develop Risk Mitigation Plans
- P3.2 Implement Risk Mitigation Plans
"Is the design approach identified? Is the development process reused across multiple projects? Is work documented?"
###Purpose
Design, develop, and implement solutions to requirements. Solutions, designs, and implementations encompass products, product components, and product-related life-cycle processes either singly or in combination as appropriate.
###Specific Practices by Goal
- G1 Select Product-Component Solutions
- P1.1 Develop Alternative Solutions and Selection Criteria
- P1.2 Select Product Component Solutions
- G2 Develop the Design
- P2.1 Design the Product or Product Component
- P2.2 Establish a Technical Data Package
- P2.3 Design Interfaces Using Criteria
- P2.4 Perform Make, Buy, or Reuse Analysis
- G3 Implement the Product Design
- P3.1 Implement the Design
- P3.2 Develop Product Support Documentation
"Can we prove a product will work in the field?"
Demonstrate that a product or product component fulfills its intended use when placed in its intended environment.
- G1 Prepare for Validation
- P1.1 Select Products for Validation
- P1.2 Establish the Validation Environment
- P1.3 Establish Validation Procedures and Criteria
- G2 Validate Product or Product Components
- P2.1 Perform Validation
- P2.2 Analyze Validation Results.
"Do we conduct peer reviews with a focus on making sure designs meet requirements? Can we prove a product meets all of its requirements?""
Ensure that selected work products meet their specified requirements.
- G1 Prepare for Verification
- P1.1 Select Work Products for Verification
- P1.2 Establish the Verification Environment
- P1.3 Establish Verification Procedures and Criteria
- G2 Perform Peer Reviews
- P2.1 Prepare for Peer Reviews
- P2.2 Conduct Peer Reviews
- P2.3 Analyze Peer Review Data
- G3 Verify Selected Work Products
- P3.1 Perform Verification
- P3.2 Analyze Verification Results
"Are significant decisions made in a standard and objective way? Are these decisions documented?"
Analyze possible decisions using a formal evaluation process that evaluates identified alternatives against established criteria.
- G1 Evaluate Alternatives
- P1.1 Establish Guidelines for Decision Analysis
- P1.2 Establish Evaluation Criteria
- P1.3 Identify Alternative Solutions
- P1.4 Select Evaluation Methods
- P1.5 Evaluate Alternatives
- P1.6 Select Solutions
"Are processes defined and documented? Are they easy to find and learn?"
###Purpose
Establish and maintain a usable set of organizational process assets.
- G1 Establish Organizational Process Assets
- P1.1 Establish Standard Processes
- P1.2 Establish Life-Cycle Model Descriptions
- P1.3 Establish Tailoring Criteria and Guidelines
- P1.4 Establish the Organization's Measurement Repository
- P1.5 Establish the Organization's Process Asset Library
"How can we improve our processes? Is there a process to update processes as we learn more and see the need for change?"
Plan and implement organizational process improvement based on a thorough understanding of the current strengths and weaknesses of the organization's processes and process assets.
- G1 Determine Process Improvement Opportunities
- P1.1 Establish Organizational Process Needs
- P1.2 Appraise the Organization's Processes
- P1.3 Identify the Organization's Process Improvements
- G2 Plan and Implement Process Improvement Activities
- P2.1 Establish Process Action Plans
- P2.2 Implement Process Action Plans
- G3 Deploy Organizational Process Assets and Incorporate Lessons Learned
- P3.1 Deploy Organizational Process Assets
- P3.2 Deploy Standard Processes
- P3.3 Monitor Implementation
- P3.4 Incorporate Process-Related Experiences into the Organizational Process Assets
"Do we train new employees in our development processes and tools?"
Develop the skills and knowledge of people so they can perform their roles effectively and efficiently.
- G1 Establish an Organizational Training Capability
- P1.1 Establish the Strategic Training Needs
- P1.2 Determine Which Training Needs Are the Responsibility of the Organization
- P1.3 Establish an Organizational Training Tactical Plan
- P1.4 Establish Training Capability
- G2 Provide Necessary Training
- P2.1 Deliver Training
- P2.2 Establish Training Records
- P2.3 Assess Training Effectiveness