Summary

Place selected work products of the process under appropriate levels of control.

Description

The purpose of this generic practice is to establish and maintain the integrity of the selected work products of the process (or their descriptions) throughout their useful life.

The selected work products are specifically identified in the plan for performing the process, along with a specification of the appropriate level of control.

Different levels of control are appropriate for different work products and for different points in time. For some work products, it may be sufficient to maintain version control so that the version of the work product in use at a given time, past or present, is known and changes are incorporated in a controlled manner. Version control is usually under the sole control of the work product owner (which can be an individual, group, or team).

Sometimes, it can be critical that work products be placed under formal or baseline configuration management. This type of control includes defining and establishing baselines at predetermined points. These baselines are formally reviewed and approved, and serve as the basis for further development of the designated work products.

Refer to the Configuration Management (CM) (CMMI-DEV) process area for more information about establishing and maintaining the integrity of work products using configuration identification, configuration control, configuration status accounting, and configuration audits.


Additional levels of control between version control and formal configuration management are possible. An identified work product can be under various levels of control at different points in time.

CAR Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Action proposals
  • Action plans
  • Causal analysis and resolution records


CM Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Access lists
  • Change status reports
  • Change request database
  • CCB meeting minutes
  • Archived baselines




DAR Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Guidelines for when to apply a formal evaluation process
  • Evaluation reports containing recommended solutions




IPM Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • The project’s defined process
  • Project plans
  • Other plans that affect the project
  • Integrated plans
  • Actual process and product measurements collected from the project
  • Project’s shared vision
  • Team structure
  • Team charters




MA Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Measurement objectives
  • Specifications of base and derived measures
  • Data collection and storage procedures
  • Base and derived measurement data sets
  • Analysis results and draft reports
  • Data analysis tools




OPD Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Organization’s set of standard processes
  • Descriptions of lifecycle models
  • Tailoring guidelines for the organization’s set of standard processes
  • Definitions of the common set of product and process measures
  • Organization’s measurement data
  • Rules and guidelines for structuring and forming teams


OPF Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Process improvement proposals
  • Organization’s approved process action plans
  • Training materials used for deploying organizational process assets
  • Guidelines for deploying the organization’s set of standard processes on new projects
  • Plans for the organization’s process appraisals


OPM Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Documented lessons learned from improvement validation
  • Deployment plans
  • Revised improvement measures, objectives, priorities
  • Updated process documentation and training material


OPP Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Organization’s quality and process performance objectives
  • Definitions of the selected measures of process performance
  • Baseline data on the organization’s process performance
  • Process performance models


OT Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Organizational training tactical plan
  • Training records
  • Training materials and supporting artifacts
  • Instructor evaluation forms


PI Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Acceptance documents for the received product components
  • Evaluated assembled product and product components
  • Product integration strategy
  • Product integration procedures and criteria
  • Updated interface description or agreement


PMC Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Project schedules with status
  • Project measurement data and analysis
  • Earned value reports


PP Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Work breakdown structure
  • Project plan
  • Data management plan
  • Stakeholder involvement plan


PPQA Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Noncompliance reports
  • Evaluation logs and reports


QPM Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Subprocesses to be included in the project’s defined process
  • Operational definitions of the measures, their collection points in the subprocesses, and how the integrity of the measures will be determined
  • Collected measurements


RD Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Customer functional and quality attribute requirements
  • Definition of required functionality and quality attributes
  • Product and product component requirements
  • Interface requirements


REQM Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Requirements
  • Requirements traceability matrix


RSKM Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Risk management strategy
  • Identified risk items
  • Risk mitigation plans


SAM Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Statements of work
  • Supplier agreements
  • Memoranda of agreement
  • Subcontracts
  • Preferred supplier lists


TS Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Product, product component, and interface designs
  • Technical data packages
  • Interface design documents
  • Criteria for design and product component reuse
  • Implemented designs (e.g., software code, fabricated product components)
  • User, installation, operation, and maintenance documentation


VAL Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Lists of products and product components selected for validation
  • Validation methods, procedures, and criteria
  • Validation reports


VER Elaboration

 

Examples of work products placed under control include the following:
  • Verification procedures and criteria
  • Peer review training material
  • Peer review data
  • Verification reports