Establish and maintain the organization’s measurement repository.

Refer to the Use Organizational Process Assets for Planning Project Activities specific practice of the Integrated Project Management process area for more information about the use of the organization’s measurement repository in planning project activities.

The repository contains both product and process measures related to the organization’s set of standard processes. It also contains or refers to information needed to understand and interpret measures and to assess them for reasonableness and applicability. For example, the definitions of measures are used to compare similar measures from different processes.

Standard measures that must be collected from the supplier are included as requirements in standard supplier agreements and may appear in the organization’s measurement repository.

Typical Work Products

1.    Definition of the common set of product and process measures for the organization’s set of standard processes

2.    Design of the organization’s measurement repository

3.    Organization’s measurement repository (i.e., the repository structure and support environment)

4.    Organization’s measurement data

Subpractices

1.    Determine the organization’s needs for storing, retrieving, and analyzing measurements.

2.    Define a common set of process and product measures for the organization’s set of standard processes.

Measures in the common set are selected based on the organization’s set of standard processes. They are selected for their ability to provide visibility into process performance and to support expected business objectives. The common set of measures may vary for different standard processes.

Standard measures are selected for their ability to provide visibility into processes critical to expected business objectives and to focus on elements significantly impacting performance within a project and across the organization.

Measures defined include those related to agreement management, some of which may need to be collected from suppliers.

Operational definitions for measures specify procedures for collecting valid data and the point in the process where data will be collected.

Refer to the Measurement and Analysis process area for more information about defining measures.

3.    Design and implement the measurement repository.

4.    Specify procedures for storing, updating, and retrieving measures.

5.    Conduct peer reviews on definitions of the common set of measures and procedures for storing, updating, and retrieving measures.

6.    Enter specified measures into the repository.

Refer to the Measurement and Analysis process area for more information about collecting and analyzing data.

7.    Make the contents of the measurement repository available for use by the organization and projects, as appropriate.

8.    Revise the measurement repository, the common set of measures, and procedures as the organization’s needs change.