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Appendix I—Program and Portfolio Management Process Models

As Best Practices and Capabilities were developed, the process model
proved to be an extremely useful framework for specifying Capabilities and
identifying dependencies between Capabilities.
Many Capabilities specifically addressed only one domain, such as Port-
folio Management. For example, most of the controls that regulate the exe-
cution of project management processes have to be developed and
communicated by some process within the Portfolio domain. Most of the
tools and techniques have to be specified, developed, or standardized, and
made available as a result of processes within the Portfolio domain, as well.
As the concept of process management and continuous process improve-
ment was incorporated into the OPM3 model, Capabilities involving estab-
lishing process improvement policies, process standards, measurement
management, and controlling authority were easily mapped to the appro-
priate domain processes.
This process model framework enables the mapping of Capabilities and
Best Practices to the appropriate domain, the identification of relationships
and dependencies between the domains, and the mapping of inputs, out-
puts, controls, and tools and techniques to the appropriate processes. This
resulted in an elegant framework where the process information was
written to be specific to the appropriate domain—even though it may at
first appear to be a simple copy of the project management processes,
renamed for the other domains.
These processes, aligned to appropriate process groups in the Program
and Portfolio domains, are offered here to help the user understand the
construction of the Standard. The Program and Portfolio Management
framework outlined here can be the basis for future refinement and detailed
specifications. This appendix describes each of the core and facilitating
processes within the appropriate process group for the domains of Program
and Portfolio Management, and is presented in order by process group.
The processes are identified by their specific domain and process group,
starting with Initiating and ending with Closing.

PROGRAM MANAGEMENT PROCESS MODEL

Program Management Processes
.1 Program Initiating Processes
.2 Program Planning Processes
.3 Program Executing Processes
.4 Program Controlling Processes
.5 Program Closing Processes

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