This is the first in a series mini-posts on technical and architectural aspects of process asset repository systems. In this post I will introduce the process object engine sub-system.

Deployment of a process asset repository system is critical for any organization striving to advance from project-level process management—CMMI Level 2 maturity–to organizational wide process management that facilitates application of the organization’s best practices and lesson learned across all of its projects—CMMI Level 3 maturity.  Process asset repository system is an enterprise class application that manages all aspects—creation, storage, collaboration, consumption, appraisal–of the organizational process improvement needs.

Abstracted from the users, process object engine forms the core of process asset repository system. Other parts of the system, as well as, external applications interact with the process object engine through a set of web-services APIs. Process object engine provides the necessary infrastructure services including persistence, transaction support and change control.

Moreover, the organization’s process assets are granularly captured using an object model.  Process object model is an interesting topic and I will talk more about in future posts.

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