Use organizational process assets and the measurement repository for estimating and planning project activities.

Refer to the Organizational Process Definition process area for more information about organizational process assets and the organization’s measurement repository.

When available, use results of previous planning and execution activities as predictors of the relative scope and risk of the effort being estimated for the current acquisition.

Typical Work Products

1.    Project estimates

2.    Project plans

Subpractices

1.    Use the tasks and work products of the project’s defined process as a basis for estimating and planning project activities.

An understanding of the relationships among tasks and work products of the project’s defined process and of the roles to be performed by relevant stakeholders is a basis for developing a realistic plan.

2.    Use the organization’s measurement repository in estimating the project’s planning parameters.