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This section provides a structured Standards Assessment and Selection Process to reference when planning or performing standards assessment and selection. The activities outlined below and illustrated in Figure 1 will typically be performed in the conceptual design phase of a project as the outcome of the selection decision may impact downstream plans to design, develop and implement the standards based solution.
The companion Standards Assessment and Selection Template is aligned with the the process and is recommended for use when documenting the assessment process, recommendation and decision.
Figure 1: Standards Assessment and Selection Process
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- Perform an environmental scan to identify candidate standards currently used to support similar use cases as well as existing or emerging solutions employed by projects with similar requirements and use cases and identify candidate standards well aligned with project requirements.
Supporting Documentation:
- The Standards Selection Guides - Registry provides information on Standards Selection decisions undertaken by other projects;
- The Standards Wiki on InfoScribe provides provides an overview of relevant standards in use in Canada and Internationally; and
- The Standards General Assessment Criteria provided provided on this site may be used as a screening tool to short list candidate standards for further evaluation.
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Supporting Documentation:
- The Standards General Assessment Criteria and Standard Specific Assessment Criteria provided provided in this site may be used with a scoring methodology to support a structured assessment.
- The companion Standards Assessment Template provides a simple scoring methodology that can be directly applied or adapted to assess a standard against the Evaluation Criteria.
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Supporting Documentation:
- Use of the companion companion Standards Assessment Template is is recommended when documenting the assessment process, recommendation and decision.
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