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The definition of Assessment is "An activity to analyze quality or effectiveness and consider available options." An activity is a process. If the definition is right, then Assessment is not an object. If the definition is wrong, we should fix it.
5 Comments
Alistair Hamilton
02 Jul, 2013From my perspective, the definition is incorrect. The information object denotes the findings/recommendations/result/output of assessing something (eg, but not necessarily, a report or paper). "Assessment" is a noun, which suggests technically the term should be OK (it is not a something like "process" which can be either a noun or a verb) although "assessment" has close associations with the verb (process) "assess". Still, if anyone can identfy a clearer and better term for the object rather than "assessment" then, instead of simply updating the definition, so much the better!
Jenny Linnerud
02 Jul, 2013I think the Assessment is an information object, not an activity. In GSBPM terms it would be part of the output of the Evaluate phase.
I think we should see this issue together with issue 19. If we build quality into all of our subprocesses and not just phase 9 then
in addition to Process Metrics coming out of a subprocess then we we would also have Evaluation Assessments and Asessments.
Of course it is possible to think of these as Transformed outputs (they did not exist before the process and they are created by the process from
the input to the process), but if we treat Process Metrics as an important subtype of Process Output, then maybe an Assessment is also an important subtype.
user-f9ef6
15 Jul, 2013I agree that we should fix the definition.
user-8e470
16 Jul, 2013Recommended Action: The definition needs to be fixed. It is not the activity but the result of activity.
Chris will provide some words.
user-07a97
16 Jul, 2013Following the CC on 16 July here are a couple of suggestions for an alternative defintion
Definition of Assessment
Date: 16 July 2013
Current Definition
“An activity to analyze quality or effectiveness and consider available options.”
Suggested Definitions