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

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

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 the project's activities.

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

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

This estimate typically includes the following:

·   Using appropriate historical data from this project or similar projects

·   Accounting for and recording similarities and differences between the current project and those projects whose historical data will be used

·   Independently validating the historical data

·   Recording the reasoning, assumptions, and rationale used to select the historical data