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management. Normally, standards and guidelines would not be recorded in the
SPMP.
4. The project specific processes, procedures, formats, templates and checklists—
SPMP would normally provide reference or pointers to formats, templates and
checklists selected for use in the project. They would be either in the organi-
zational process assets library or the project's configuration management.
5. Project specific tools and techniques—Projects would be using tools for
preparing various diagrams like flow charts, DFDs, ERDs use case diagrams
and so on. Other tools used in the project include configuration management
tools, documentation tools (such as MS Office suite), data analysis tools, and
communication tools including audio/video conferencing and collaboration
tools. All these would be enumerated in the SPMP and pointers would be
included to locate their user manuals or help files.

Thus most of the activities of elicitation and gathering are covered by the SPMP
and the project schedule. The remaining activities would be covered in the other
plans.

7.6.2 Requirements Analysis

This aspect would find a place in two plans, namely the SPMP and the project
schedule. The project schedule would record the dates on which this activity would
be performed. SPMP would contain the details of the persons carrying out the
activity, the methodology, and the tools and techniques utilized in the analysis.
SPMP would also contain the pointers to the procedure, standards, guidelines,
formats and templates necessary for carrying out this activity.

7.6.3 Requirements Establishment

The activities that need planning are the resources, the timelines, the methodology,
standards, guidelines, formats, templates and checklists. The methodology
includes documenting guidelines, quality control methodology, approval meth-
odology, and configuration management methodology. We also need to plan, the
tools and techniques used for documenting, defect reporting, resolution, and
communication.
SPMP would record the methodology and pointers to the documentation
guidelines, adopted for the project in the establishment of project requirements. It
will also include information about the selected tools and techniques proposed for
use on the establishment of the project requirements.
SCMP would record the selected configuration management methodology for
establishment of project requirements as well as the change management