Monday, November 15, 2010

Organizational Process Focus (OPF)

Organizational Process Focus (OPF) is a Process Management Process Area at Maturity Level 3.

The purpose of Organizational Process Focus is to plan, implement, and deploy organizational process improvements based on a thorough understanding of the current strengths and weaknesses of the organization’s processes and process assets.

The organization's processes include all the processes used by the organization and its projects. Candidate improvements to the organization's processes and process assets are obtained from various sources, including measurement of the processes, lessons learned in implementing the processes, results of process appraisals, results of product evaluation activities, results of benchmarking against other organizations’ processes, and recommendations from other improvement initiatives in the organization.


Process improvement occurs within the context of the organization’s needs and is used to address the organization’s objectives. The organization encourages participation in process improvement activities by those who will perform the process. The responsibility for facilitating and managing the organization’s process improvement activities, including coordinating the participation of others, is typically assigned to a process group. The organization provides the long-term commitment and resources required to sponsor this group and to ensure the effective and timely deployment of the improvements.


Organizational process assets are used to describe, implement, and improve the organization's processes. Please refer to the Organizational Process Definition process area for more information about the organizational process assets.


Specific Goal and Practice Summary for this process area:


SG 1 Determine Process Improvement Opportunities

  • SP 1.1 Establish Organizational Process Needs
  • SP 1.2 Appraise the Organization’s Processes
  • SP 1.3 Identify the Organization's Process Improvements
SG 2 Plan and Implement Process Improvements
  • SP 2.1 Establish Process Action Plans
  • SP 2.2 Implement Process Action Plans
SG 3 Deploy Organizational Process Assets and Incorporate Lessons Learned
  • SP 3.1 Deploy Organizational Process Assets
  • SP 3.2 Deploy Standard Processes
  • SP 3.3 Monitor Implementation
  • SP 3.4 Incorporate Process-Related Experiences into the Organizational Process Assets

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