Participate with relevant stakeholders to identify, negotiate, and track critical dependencies.

Refer to the Project Planning process area for more information about identifying stakeholders and their appropriate involvement and about establishing and maintaining commitments.

Typical Work Products

1.    Defects, issues, and action items resulting from reviews with relevant stakeholders

2.    Critical dependencies

3.    Commitments to address critical dependencies

4.    Status of critical dependencies

Typical Supplier Deliverables

1.    Status of critical dependencies

Subpractices

1.    Conduct reviews with relevant stakeholders.

It is particularly important that acquirers or owners of systems that interact with the project in a system of systems be involved in these reviews to manage critical dependencies these types of systems create.

2.    Identify each critical dependency.

3.    Establish need dates and plan dates for each critical dependency based on the project schedule.

4.    Review and get agreement on commitments to address each critical dependency with those responsible for providing the work product and those receiving the work product.

5.    Document critical dependencies and commitments.

The acquirer documents supplier commitments to meet critical dependencies in the supplier agreement. Supplier dependencies and acquirer dependencies are documented in an integrated plan.

6.    Track critical dependencies and commitments and take corrective action, as appropriate.

Refer to the Project Monitoring and Control process area for more information about tracking commitments.