Summary

Periodically review the project’s progress, performance, and issues.

Description

A “project’s progress” is the project’s status as viewed at a particular time when the project activities performed so far and their results and impacts are reviewed with relevant stakeholders (especially project representatives and project management) to determine whether there are significant issues or performance shortfalls to be addressed.

Progress reviews are project reviews to keep relevant stakeholders informed. These project reviews can be informal and may not be specified explicitly in project plans.

Refer to the Agreement Management (AM) (CMMI-ACQ) process area for more information about monitoring selected supplier processes.


Refer to the Solicitation and Supplier Agreement Development (SSAD) (CMMI-ACQ) process area for more information about monitoring selected supplier processes.


Example Work Products



  1. Documented project review results


Example Supplier Deliverables



  1. Supplier project progress and performance reports
  2. Supplier review materials and reports
  3. Documentation of product and document deliveries


Subpractices



1. Regularly communicate status on assigned activities and work products to relevant stakeholders.

Managers, staff, customers, end users, suppliers, and other relevant stakeholders are included in reviews as appropriate.



2. Review the results of collecting and analyzing measures for controlling the project.

 

Examples of classes of commonly used acquirer measures include the following:
  • Requirements volatility
  • Return on investment
  • Cost performance index
  • Number of defects per phase and by severity of defects
  • Schedule performance index
  • Customer satisfaction trends
  • Supplier performance and relationship trends


Refer to the Measurement and Analysis (MA) (CMMI-ACQ) process area for more information about aligning measurement and analysis activities and providing measurement results.



3. Identify and document significant issues and deviations from the plan.

This activity includes identifying and documenting both acquirer and supplier issues and deviations.



4. Document change requests and problems identified in work products and processes.

Refer to the Configuration Management (CM) (CMMI-ACQ) process area for more information about tracking and controlling changes.



5. Document the results of reviews.

6. Track change requests and problem reports to closure.