Components

The following table broadly categorizes the main areas of the process model components.

Area | Description
Product organization | The design part breakdown structure for a product. See Product Organization.
Object classes | Items, requests, baselines, and so on, which together comprise the product. See Object Classes.
Lifecycles | Approval cycles that ensure objects are operated on by the correct role and in a controlled manner. See Lifecycles.
Privileges | Assignments for users and groups the functions that users can perform. See Privileges and Roles.
Role responsibilities | Role assignments that determine the product areas in which users can operate. See Privileges and Roles.
Attributes | System and user-defined information for each object. See Attributes.
Relationships | Associations between objects that determine how the objects may impact each other. See Relationships.
Rules | Change management controls that govern the progress and coordination of items with requests. See Change Management Rules.