| 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. |