Select subprocesses that compose the project’s defined process based on historical stability and capability data.

Refer to the Integrated Project Management process area for more information about establishing and maintaining the project’s defined process.

Refer to the Organizational Process Definition process area for more information about the organization’s process asset library, which might include a process element of known and needed capability.

Refer to the Organizational Process Performance process area for more information about the organization’s process-performance baselines and process-performance models.

Subprocesses are identified from process elements in the organization’s set of standard processes and process artifacts in the organization’s process asset library.

These subprocesses may include those used for interacting with a supplier (e.g., negotiating a supplier agreement and conducting supplier reviews).

Typical Work Products

1.    Criteria used in identifying which subprocesses are valid candidates for inclusion in the project’s defined process

2.    Candidate subprocesses for inclusion in the project’s defined process

3.    Subprocesses to be included in the project’s defined process

4.    Identified risks when selected subprocesses lack a process-performance history

Subpractices

1.    Establish the criteria to use in identifying which subprocesses are valid candidates for use.

2.    Determine whether subprocesses that are to be statistically managed and were obtained from the organizational process assets are suitable for statistical management.

A subprocess may be more suitable for statistical management if it has a history of the following:

·       Stable performance in previous comparable instances

·       Process-performance data that satisfy the project’s quality and process-performance objectives

Historical data are primarily obtained from the organization’s process-performance baselines. However, these data may not be available for all subprocesses.

3.    Analyze the interaction of subprocesses to understand relationships among subprocesses and measured attributes of the subprocesses.

4.    Identify the risk when no subprocess is available that is known to be capable of satisfying quality and process-performance objectives (i.e., no capable subprocess is available or the capability of the subprocess is not known).

Even when a subprocess has not been selected to be statistically managed, historical data and process-performance models may indicate that the subprocess is not capable of satisfying quality and process-performance objectives.

Refer to the Risk Management process area for more information about identifying and analyzing risks.