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For an organization to function effectively, it has to determine and manage numerous linked activities. An activity or set of activities using resources, and managed in order to enable the transformation of inputs into outputs, can be considered as a process. Often the output from one process forms the input to the next. This document provides guidelines for the description of processes by identifying descriptive elements and rules for their formulation. It characterizes the following elements of process description: . Title; . Purpose; . Outcomes; . Activities; . Tasks; . Information items. In addition process views are described. The document does not describe how processes are composed or otherwise aggregated into larger frameworks or architectures. The intended audience for this document is the editors, working group members, reviewers and other participants in the development of process standards and technical reports. It is intended that they will select the process description elements suitable for their project from those described in this document. It is further intended, that having selected the appropriate elements, readers of this document will apply them in a manner consistent with the guidance provided by this document. This document is also intended for use by all parties that define process models. For example, other international standards groups, national standards, sector or special interest groups, professional standards, researchers, process assessors. These process models may be for the purpose of process definition, implementation or assessment. NOTE 1 The guidelines in this document are those applied in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7. They align with those used in ISO TC176 (the committee responsible for ISO 9001). NOTE 2 In order to encourage consistency between process models, users of ISO/IEC TR 24774 may freely reproduce all or part of this document; provided that the copyright of ISO/IEC is acknowledged.