Summary

Establish and maintain an organizational policy for planning and performing the process.

Description

The purpose of this generic practice is to define the organizational expectations for the process and make these expectations visible to those members of the organization who are affected. In general, senior management is responsible for establishing and communicating guiding principles, direction, and expectations for the organization.

Not all direction from senior management will bear the label “policy.” The existence of appropriate organizational direction is the expectation of this generic practice, regardless of what it is called or how it is imparted.

CAR Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for identifying and systematically addressing causal analysis of selected outcomes.



CM Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for establishing and maintaining baselines, tracking and controlling changes to work products (under configuration management), and establishing and maintaining integrity of the baselines.



DAR Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for selectively analyzing possible decisions using a formal evaluation process that evaluates identified alternatives against established criteria. The policy should also provide guidance on which decisions require a formal evaluation process.



IPM Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for establishing and maintaining the project’s defined process from project startup through the life of the project, using the project’s defined process in managing the project, and coordinating and collaborating with relevant stakeholders.



MA Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for aligning measurement objectives and activities with identified information needs and project, organizational, or business objectives and for providing measurement results.



OPD Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for establishing and maintaining a set of standard processes for use by the organization, making organizational process assets available across the organization, and establishing rules and guidelines for teams.



OPF Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for determining process improvement opportunities for the processes being used and for planning, implementing, and deploying process improvements across the organization.



OPM Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for analyzing the organization’s business performance using statistical and other quantitative techniques to determine performance shortfalls, and identifying and deploying process and technology improvements that contribute to meeting quality and process performance objectives.



OPP Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for establishing and maintaining process performance baselines and process performance models for the organization’s set of standard processes.



OT Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for identifying the strategic training needs of the organization and providing that training.



PI Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for developing product integration strategies, procedures, and an environment; ensuring interface compatibility among product components; assembling the product components; and delivering the product and product components.



PMC Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for monitoring project progress and performance against the project plan and managing corrective action to closure when actual or results deviate significantly from the plan.



PP Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for estimating the planning parameters, making internal and external commitments, and developing the plan for managing the project.



PPQA Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for objectively evaluating whether processes and associated work products adhere to applicable process descriptions, standards, and procedures; and ensuring that noncompliance is addressed.

This policy also establishes organizational expectations for process and product quality assurance being in place for all projects. Process and product quality assurance must possess sufficient independence from project management to provide objectivity in identifying and reporting noncompliance issues.



QPM Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for using statistical and other quantitative techniques and historical data when: establishing quality and process performance objectives, composing the project’s defined process, selecting subprocess attributes critical to understanding process performance, monitoring subprocess and project performance, and performing root cause analysis to address process performance deficiencies. In particular, this policy establishes organizational expectations for use of process performance measures, baselines, and models.



RD Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for collecting stakeholder needs, formulating product and product component requirements, and analyzing and validating those requirements.



REQM Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for managing requirements and identifying inconsistencies between the requirements and the project plans and work products.



RSKM Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for defining a risk management strategy and identifying, analyzing, and mitigating risks.



SAM Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for establishing, maintaining, and satisfying supplier agreements.



TS Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for addressing the iterative cycle in which product or product component solutions are selected, designs are developed, and designs are implemented.



VAL Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for selecting products and product components for validation; for selecting validation methods; and for establishing and maintaining validation procedures, criteria, and environments that ensure the products and product components satisfy end user needs in their intended operating environment.



VER Elaboration



This policy establishes organizational expectations for establishing and maintaining verification methods, procedures, criteria, and the verification environment, as well as for performing peer reviews and verifying selected work products.