When developing or changing a process and all its related assets, often the process engineers have to face an important issue: how defining an integrated set of processes so that each process element is designed taking in consideration its relationships with all the other interfacing elements.

This paper describes an approach that leverages a defined process architecture and a documented specification of process requirements to ensure integration among the process elements. All the examples are referred to a CMMI-based process definition but the most of the concepts are applicable also when adopting process models other than CMMI®.