Within the constant evolution observed in IT/IS area, new processes emerged faced to new customer’s requirements and also
due to new trends in software engineering community, such as unified or agile processes. Despite the great set of available
tools in process and project management, still there is a real gap between “process” and “project” management approaches and
respective tools. To assist team members on their work, the effort spend in a process customization could be used in other
tasks, such as the project management task to control activities, work products and team members. In this paper, we describe
a simplified SPEM-based metamodel for process specification and explain the motivation around this proposal. Considering this
metamodel, we also propose a metamodel for project definition and configuration. To conclude, we demonstrate that this metamodel
is better adapted to processes specification and can be applied in a project definition.