scope:

This International Standard provides overall information on the concepts of process assessment and its use in evaluating the achievement of process quality characteristics, and the application of this to the conduct of process management. It describes how the parts of the suite fit together, and provides guidance for their selection and use. It explains the requirements contained within the suite of standards for Process Assessment, and their applicability to performing assessments. Readers of this guide should familiarize themselves with the terminology and structure of the document suite, and then reference the appropriate elements of the suite for the context in which they propose to conduct an assessment. NOTE This International Standard addresses terms used in 33001 to 33019 of the ISO/IEC 330xx series, as well as key terms used in other documents in the series. Terms specific to documents from 33020 to 33099 are defined in each document.