Artifact: Process Assurance Review Record
This artifact lists the criteria used to review and assess a project's compliance with organizational processes. It also provides documentation of the review results.
Domains: Software Capability Improvement
Purpose
It is used to assure that projects are complying with organizational processes, and ensures that reviews are performed consistently and objectively.
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Description
Main Description

Process Assurance reviews are conducted to monitor projects for their use of the organization’s process assets and any tailoring they perform.

Compliance is verified through interviews with the project team and review of their tailored processes and the artifacts they generated.

Typical verification criteria include:

  • Did the team select the appropriate process assets for their project?
  • Did the team collect measurement data to provide evidence of process compliance and monitor their capability improvement?
  • Did the team adhere to all required policies and standards?
  • If the team identified the need to deviate from the standard tailoring guidelines, was the exception managed in accordance with the Process Exception Procedure, as evidenced by an approved policy or process exception request?
  • Did the team submit process and technology improvement proposals based on their usage of the assets?
Brief Outline

It typically contains the following:

  • overview of the project and relevant processes,
  • compliance criteria and questions,
  • review findings and exceptions.
Tailoring
Impact of not having
  • Inconsistency in the verification criteria used to review organizational process compliance.
  • Inability to report on the level of process adoption within the organization.
  • Inability to document how projects are tailoring the organization's processes.
Reasons for not needingThis artifact is not needed if process assurance reviews are not conducted.