This page provides summary information about the Enterprise SPICE model (ISO/IEC 33071) and the Enterprise SPICE project that developed this model.
The Project
The process community recognized the need for an integrated standards-based enterprise model and requested an international activity to develop such a model. The initiative was first proposed and discussed at SPICE2006 conference in Luxembourg and formally launched at SPICE2007 conference in Seoul, Korea.
A call for volunteers resulted in over 120 volunteer project team members from 31 different countries in various roles.
The project is sponsored by the SPICE User Group, and it is governed by a 15 member Advisory Board voted in by the project stakeholders every two years. Seats are reserved for representatives from various geographical regions, for the SPICE User Group, and for the SPICE Academy.
The project is led and managed by the International Project Leader. The project includes several teams: The Architecture Team; the Author Team; “Buddies”, or subject matter experts, that provide early review on work products; and Reviewers.
The reviewers were critical in providing almost 1000 comments on draft products. All comments were adjudicated by the project team and approved comments are reflected in the Technical Report and the Standard.
The Technical Report was ushered through the ISO process to become ISO/IEC 33071.
International Standard: ISO/IEC 33071 Information Technology- Process assessment – An integrated process capability assessment model for Enterprise Processes, ISO/IEC 2016, Published in Switzerland 2016
Enterprise SPICE® An Integrated Model for Enterprise-wide Assessment and Improvement, Technical Report – Issue 1, September 2010, the Enterprise SPICE Project Team. (available at www.enterprisespice.com )
Project archives are retained in a repository at Vilnius University, Lithuania.
The Model
The Enterprise SPICE model (ISO/IEC 33071) integrates and harmonizes selected process models and standards into a single enterprise improvement model. By bringing together best practices from several disciplines and several models and standards into a comprehensive improvement model, Enterprise SPICE provides an efficient effective mechanism for assessing and improving processes deployed across a typical, large or small, enterprise.
Benefits
Enterprise SPICE provides the following benefits to stakeholders:
Single Unified Model: the model integrates practices from the widely recognized standards and sources of best practice; no need to use many separate standards and models concurrently – they are consolidated into a single unified model
Pick and Choose: select from the model those areas relevant to your business needs
Authoritative: provides best guidance available drawn from widely recognized standards and sources, with detailed mapping tables tracing each practice to sources if further information is desired/required
Comprehensive: addresses a broad, and expanding, range of disciplines
Synergized: the sources are integrated, harmonized, and synergized; each source contributes important perspectives
Reduced Costs: Training on one model, not several; Improvement using one model, not several, leading to simultaneous improvement vs. all sources; compliant processes address best practice from multiple standards concurrently; Avoids duplication of effort; Appraisals/assessments vs. one model, not several, leading to simultaneous multiple ratings/ certification if desired, assuming required assessment practices are followed
Enhanced Effectiveness via Integrated Guidance: For all levels from enterprise to team processes; For large or small business units; Across disciplines for multidisciplinary teams; Aligns business and technical processes; Across all product and service life cycle phases/activities; Improvement initiatives can be aligned across the enterprise
Certification: certification services from accredited bodies
Model Scope
The model was built on an existing baseline enterprise model, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) integrated Capability Maturity Model® (iCMM®) v2.0, which integrated a set of disciplines and source standards/models. Additional disciplines and sources were identified via a formal survey of all project participants. These were then vetted against a set of criteria and a smaller set chosen for integration into the initial release of Enterprise SPICE.
As a result of the stakeholder inputs, the first release of Enterprise SPICE addresses the following disciplines by integrating the following sources.
Disciplines: enterprise management, investment management, general management, service management, human resource management, acquisition, quality management systems, full lifecycle engineering for products and services, knowledge management, environment, safety and security, and core supporting disciplines
Sources: FAA-iCMM (baseline model, integrating ISO 9001, ISO/IEC 12207, ISO/IEC 15288, ISO/IEC 15504, Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, CMMI®, EIA 731, previous CMMs, MIL-STD-882C, MIL-STD-882D, IEC 61508: DEF STAN 00-56, ISO 17799, ISO 15408, ISO/IEC 21827, NIST 800-30);
plus: ITIL®; ISO/IEC 20000; CobIT®; People-CMM; ITIM, ISO 14000.
Additional references include ISO 31000, eSCM-CL, eSCM-SP, PMI Standard for Portfolio Management, PMBOK, and FEA Practice Guidance.
Source documents are documents from which Enterprise SPICE process descriptions are derived. Mapping of Enterprise SPICE processes to source practices is required, along with coverage of source documents, at an appropriate level of detail.
Reference documents are documents identified as useful in developing best practice in certain areas, but full coverage and detailed mapping are not required.
Model Structure
The model is structured into categories as follows: Governance/Management (9 processes); Life Cycle (8 processes); Support (11 processes); and a Special Application Area for Safety and Security.
Each process includes purpose, outcomes, base practices, work products and relationship notes. A detailed mapping table for all processes indicates the sources and references integrated at the purpose, outcome, and base practices level.
For more information about the project and the model please download
International Standard: ISO/IEC 33071 Information Technology- Process assessment – An integrated process capability assessment model for Enterprise Processes, ISO/IEC 2016, Published in Switzerland 2016 (https://www.iso.org/standard/55162.html )
Enterprise SPICE® An Integrated Model for Enterprise-wide Assessment and Improvement, Technical Report – Issue 1, September 2010. The Enterprise SPICE Project Team (available at the Enterprisespice website)