The act of making, altering, or adapting something for a particular end.
For example, a project or work group establishes its defined process by tailoring from the organization’s set of standard processes to meet its objectives, constraints, and environment. Likewise, a service provider tailors standard services for a particular service agreement.

Organizational guidelines that enable projects, work groups, and organizational functions to appropriately adapt standard processes for their use.
The organization’s set of standard processes is described at a general level that may not be directly usable to perform a process.
Tailoring guidelines aid those who establish the defined processes for project or work groups. Tailoring guidelines cover (1) selecting a standard process, (2) selecting an approved lifecycle model, and (3) tailoring the selected standard process and lifecycle model to fit project or work group needs. Tailoring guidelines describe what can and cannot be modified and identify process components that are candidates for modification.

A list of process areas and their corresponding capability levels that represent an objective for process improvement. (See also “achievement profile” and “capability level profile.”)

A sequence of target profiles that describes the path of process improvement to be followed by the organization. (See also “achievement profile,” “capability level profile,” and “target profile.”)

A group of people with complementary skills and expertise who work together to accomplish specified objectives.
A team establishes and maintains a process that identifies roles, responsibilities, and interfaces; is sufficiently precise to enable the team to measure, manage, and improve their work performance; and enables the team to make and defend their commitments.
Collectively, team members provide skills and advocacy appropriate to all aspects of their work (e.g., for the different phases of a work product’s life) and are responsible for accomplishing the specified objectives.
Not every project or work group member must belong to a team (e.g., a person staffed to accomplish a task that is largely self-contained). Thus, a large project or work group can consist of many teams as well as project staff not belonging to any team. A smaller project or work group can consist of only a single team (or a single individual).

A collection of items that can include the following if such information is appropriate to the type of product and product component (e.g., material and manufacturing requirements may not be useful for product components associated with software services or processes):
• Product architecture description
• Allocated requirements
• Product component descriptions
• Product related lifecycle process descriptions if not described as separate product components
• Key product characteristics
• Required physical characteristics and constraints
• Interface requirements
• Materials requirements (bills of material and material characteristics)
• Fabrication and manufacturing requirements (for both the original equipment manufacturer and field support)
• Verification criteria used to ensure requirements have been achieved
• Conditions of use (environments) and operating/usage scenarios, modes and states for operations, support, training, manufacturing, disposal, and verifications throughout the life of the product
• Rationale for decisions and characteristics (e.g., requirements, requirement allocations, design choices)

Characteristic of a process, product, or service, generally defined by a functional or technical requirement.
Examples of technical performance types include estimating accuracy, end-user functions, security functions, response time, component accuracy, maximum weight, minimum throughput, allowable range.

Precisely defined technical measure of a requirement, capability, or some combination of requirements and capabilities. (See also “measure.”)

Properties (i.e., attributes) of products or services to be acquired or developed.

A discernable association among two or more logical entities such as requirements, system elements, verifications, or tasks. (See also “bidirectional traceability” and “requirements traceability.”)

An evaluation of alternatives, based on criteria and systematic analysis, to select the best alternative for attaining determined objectives.

Characteristic of a process, product, or service, generally defined by a functional or technical requirement.
Examples of technical performance types include estimating accuracy, end-user functions, security functions, response time, component accuracy, maximum weight, minimum throughput, allowable range.
Examples of technical performance types include estimating accuracy, end-user functions, security functions, response time, component accuracy, maximum weight, minimum throughput, allowable range.
The learning options selected for each situation are based on an assessment of the need for training and the performance gap to be addressed.

Technical Solution (process area)