This section describes all of the generic goals and generic practices, as well as their associated subpractices, notes, examples, and references. The generic goals are organized in numerical order, GG 1 through GG 5. The generic practices are also organized in numerical order under the generic goal they support.

As mentioned earlier, the subpractices, notes, examples, and references are not repeated in the process areas; the details of each generic goal and generic practice are found only here.