Sub Practices Take Corrective Action

1. Measure actual performance against the plan for performing the process. The measures are of the process, its work products, and its services.
2. Review accomplishments and results of the process against the plan for performing the process.
3. Review activities, status, and results of the process with the immediate level of management responsible for the process and identify issues. The reviews are intended to provide the immediate level of management with appropriate visibility into the process. The reviews can be both periodic and event driven.
4. Identify and evaluate the effects of significant deviations from the plan for performing the process.
5. Identify problems in the plan for performing the process and in the execution of the process.
6. Take corrective action when requirements and objectives are not being satisfied, when issues are identified, or when progress differs significantly from the plan for performing the process.

   Corrective action may include the following:

   • Taking remedial action to repair defective work products or services
   • Changing the plan for performing the process
   • Adjusting resources, including people, tools, and other resources
   • Negotiating changes to the established commitments
   • Securing change to the requirements and objectives that have to be satisfied
   • Terminating the effort
7. Track corrective action to closure.