Establish the Project’s Defined Process

The project's defined process consists of defined processes that form an integrated, coherent life cycle for the project. It covers all the processes needed by the project, including those processes addressed by the process areas at maturity level 2.

The project's defined process should satisfy the project's contractual and operational needs, opportunities, and constraints. It is designed to provide a best fit for the project’s needs. A project's defined process is based on:

• Customer requirements
• Product and product-component requirements
• Commitments
• Organizational process needs and objectives
• Operational environment
• Business environment

• Select a life-cycle model from those available from the organizational process assets.
• Select the standard processes from the organization's set of standard processes that best fit the needs of the project.
• Tailor the organization's set of standard processes and other organizational process assets according to the tailoring guidelines to produce the project’s defined process. Sometimes the available life-cycle models and standard processes are inadequate to meet a specific project’s needs. Sometimes the project will be unable to produce required work products or measures. In such circumstances, the project will need to seek approval to deviate from what is required by the organization. Waivers are provided for this purpose.
• Use other artifacts from the organization's process asset library as appropriate. Other artifacts may include:
  • Lessons-learned documents
  • Templates
  • Example documents
  • Estimating models
• Document the project's defined process. The project's defined process covers all the engineering, management, and support activities for the project and its interfaces to relevant stakeholders. Examples of project activities include:
  • Project planning
  • Project monitoring and controlling
  • Requirements development
  • Requirements management
  • Design and implementation
  • Verification and validation
  • Product integration
  • Supplier agreement management
  • Configuration management
  • Quality assurance
• Conduct peer reviews of the project's defined process.
• Revise the project's defined process as necessary.