Characteristic

Previous situation (2010)

Change made (2010-2014)

Process Capability (1.1)

Availability and completeness of the activities description were evaluated as unsatisfactory.

A template was designed to describe the activities and tasks of the process with the following information: Name, Purpose, Code, Process Model Perspective, Description, Inputs, Outputs, Pre-conditions, Post-conditions, Roles, and optionally Methods and Tools. All activities, sub-activities and tasks of the process were described using this template.

The Role to Activity Allocation Availability and the Organizational Perspective Availability were evaluated as unsatisfactory.

The roles involved in the ME activities were specified and defined. Per each activity a role was assigned. The ME process was modeled from the organizational perspective.

Availability and completeness of the artifacts description were evaluated as unsatisfactory.

A template was designed to describe the process artifacts with the following information: Name, Purpose, Description, Activity that produces it, and consumes it. Some artifacts were modeled from the informational perspective.

The artifacts granularity was evaluated as marginal.

Artifacts of the process were analyzed and sub-divided by increasing their granularity.

Conceptual Framework Capability Quality (1.2)

The Conceptual Base Completeness was evaluated as unsatisfactory.

A process generic ontology was defined for enriching the ME

domain ontology by using stereotypes.