Wikipedia Customization for Organization's Process Asset Management

Mature organizations typically establish various process assets served as standards for work operations in their units. Process assets include policies,guidelines, standard process definitions, life cycle models, forms and templates, etc. These assets are placed in a repository called Organization¿s Process Asset Library or OPAL. Working in a project will then utilize these assets and tailor organizational standard processes to suit for individual project processes. This research proposed an approach to establishing an organization's process asset library by customizing open source software - Wikipedia. The system is called WikiOPAL. CMMI is used as the referenced process improvement model for the establishment of organization's process assets in this work. We also demonstrated that Wikipedia can be properly used as an approach for constructing a process asset library in the collaborative environment.