A Guideline usually focuses on how to perform a particular Task or grouping of Tasks (for example, grouped together as activities) or provides additional detail, rules, and recommendations on Work Products and their properties. Guidelines can include details about a variety of topics including:

• Practices and different approaches for doing work,
• How to handle particular kinds of Content Elements,
• Information on different subtypes and variants of Content Elements and how they evolve throughout a lifecycle,
• Discussions on skills the performing Roles should acquire,
• Measurements of progress and maturity, etc.

Work products typically have associated guidelines which present information on how to develop, evaluate and use the Work Products . Guidelines contain much of the substance of a method and provide assistance in a number of contexts: they help you decide what to do, they help doing it, they help assess the quality of the work, and they help understand how a particular Work Product relates to the rest of the process.