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Chapter 3—Best Practices
Figure 3-4: Dependency can also exist between Best Practices
The concept of dependencies is unique to OPM3. Breaking down each
Best Practice into its constituent Capabilities, and showing the dependen-
cies among them, reveals a sequence that permits a detailed, orderly
assessment, and provides a basis for later decisions related to improvement.
Finally, there may be situations where dependencies appear to be joint
in nature. For example, a Capability may generate an output that becomes
an input to another Capability; this, in turn, updates the work product as
an input into a Capability within the same sequence as the first Capability.
In such situations, it may be best to approach improvements to the two
processes in parallel. See Figure 3-5, below.
Figure 3-5: Sometimes there is joint dependency among Best Practices’ Capabilities
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