Assign responsibility and authority for performing the process - developing the work products - and providing the services of the process.

There is total flexibility - dependency between PA's unproven ROI

Provide adequate resources for performing the process - developiing the work products - and providing the services of the process.

The process is institutionalized as a quantitatively managed process.

Stabilize the performance of one or more subprocesses to determine the ability of the process to achieve the established quantitative quality and process-performance objectives.

Stiffness in the selection of APs to be improved cost may be higher if the organization does not have any interest in PA