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

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 (that is, 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.

The 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 to support expected business objectives. The common set of measures may vary for different standard processes.

Operational definitions for the measures specify the procedures for collecting valid data and the point in the process where the 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 the procedures for storing, updating, and retrieving measures.

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

Refer to the Verification process area for more information about conducting peer reviews.

6.    Enter the 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, common set of measures, and procedures as the organization’s needs change.

Examples of when the common set of measures may need to be revised include the following:

·   New processes are added

·   Processes are revised and new measures are needed

·   Finer granularity of data is required

·   Greater visibility into the process is required

·   Measures are retired