Collect work products, measures, measurement results, and improvement information derived from planning and performing the process to support the future use and improvement of the organization’s processes and process assets.

The purpose of this generic practice is to collect information and artifacts derived from planning and performing the process. This generic practice is performed so that information and artifacts can be included in organizational process assets and made available to those who are (or who will be) planning and performing the same or similar processes. The information and artifacts are stored in the organization’s measurement repository and the organization’s process asset library.

Refer to the Organizational Process Definition process area for more information about incorporating the work products, measures, measurement results, and improvement information into the organization’s measurement repository and process asset library.

Refer to the Integrated Project Management process area for more information about contributing work products, measures, measurement results, and documented experiences to organizational process assets.

Subpractices

1.    Store process and product measures and measurement results in the organization’s measurement repository.

The process and product measures are primarily those defined in the common set of measures for the organization’s set of standard processes.

2.    Submit documentation for inclusion in the organization’s process asset library.

3.    Document lessons learned from the process for inclusion in the organization’s process asset library.

4.    Propose improvements to organizational process assets.