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The purpose of the ISO/IEC 33000 Process Assessment Standard series is to provide a structured approach for the assessment of processes for the following purposes:
- by or on behalf of an organization with the objective of understanding the state of its own processes for process improvement;
- by or on behalf of an organization with the objective of determining the suitability of its own processes for a particular requirement or set of requirements;
- by or on behalf of one organization with the objective of determining the suitability of another organization's processes for a particular contract or set of contracts.
The framework for process assessment:
- facilitates self-assessment;
- provides a basis for use in process improvement and capability determination;
- takes into account the context in which the assessed process is implemented;
- produces a process rating;
- addresses the ability of the process to achieve its purpose;
- is appropriate across all application domains and sizes of organization;
- may provide an objective benchmark between organizations.
Process Assessment includes the determination of business needs, an assessment (measurement) of the processes used by the organization, and analysis of the current position. The analysis results will be used to drive process improvement activities or to determine the capability of the processes employed by an organization.
Core elements
33001 Concepts & Terminology
33002 Requirements for Performing Process Assessment
33003 Requirements for Process Measurement Frameworks
33004 Requirements for Process Models
Guidance
33010 Guide on performing assessments
33011 Guide on defining a documented assessment process for assessment
33012 Guide for process improvement
33013 Guide for process capability determination
33014 Guide for constructing process reference models, process assessment models and organisational maturity models for assessments
33016 Process Assessment Body of Knowledge
33017 Process Improvement Body of Knowledge
Measurement Frameworks
33020 Measurement Framework for assessment of process capability and organizational maturity
Documented assessment processes
33030 <exemplar documented process>
Process Reference Models
33040 Safety Extension
33041 High Maturity Extension
Process Assessment Models
33060 Process Assessment Model for Software Life Cycle Processes
33061 Process Assessment Model for System Life Cycle Processes
33062 Process Assessment Model for IT Service Management Processes
33064 Safety Extension
33065 High Maturity Extension
Organizational Maturity Models
33080 OMM for Software Engineering
33081 An Integrated Organizational Maturity Model for Software and Systems Engineering
The ISO/IEC 33000 series represents a re-organisation and extension of the content of the ISO/IEC 15504 'Information Technology - Process Assessment' with the following parts:
Part 1 Concepts and Vocabulary
Part 2 Performing an Assessment
Part 3 Guidance on performing an assessment
Part 4 Guidance on use for process improvement and process capability determination
Part 5 An exemplar Software Lifecycle Process Assessment Model
Part 6 An exemplar System Life Cycle Process Assessment Model
Part 7 Assessment of Organizational Maturity
Part 8 An exemplar process assessment model for IT service management
Part 9 Target Process Profiles
Part 10 Safety extensions
Current activities:
The technical work associated with converting the ISO/IEC 15504 series into the new/revised content associated with the ISO/IEC 33000 series began in 2010. These initial conversion efforts are likely to be completed sometime in 2014.
Source: ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 /N4991,2011-01-11, Final Study Group Report on the Revision of ISO/IEC 15504.