A description of the relationships among attributes of a process and its work products that are developed from historical process performance data and calibrated using collected process and product measures from the project and which are used to predict results to be achieved by following a process.

1. This glossary is from Appendix C of Technical Report CMU/SEI-2002-TR-004.
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