PIID is a mechanism, under CMMI (maturity model)/SCAMPI (appraisal technique), for

capturing evidences of a CMMI practice for purpose of appraisal by an external auditor.

PIID are practice evidences that are classified into three types:

Direct Artifact : a PIID type that is considered a direct output (a direct evidence) of
the particular CMMI practice, e.g., the output or product or deliverable of a CMMI
process area.

Indirect Artifact : a PIID type that is considered an indirect output of the particular
CMMI practice, etc. minutes, logs, etc. (the indirect evidences) of the practice, e.g,
the CMMI practice log or governance log (I call these secondary output of a process
area)

Affirmation: a PIID type that includes oral or written evidences confirming the
particular CMMI practice (or lack thereof), e.g., some one's affirmation over an
interview.

For instance,

A "PE Plan" is a direct output of the CMMI "PMC SP 1.5" process therefore it is a Direct
Artifact.

The associated PE Plan review attendance records are the secondary evidences in the
process that produces the PE Plan, and therefore it is considered an Indirect Artifact.

In addition, if some witness being interviewed over the audit duration asserts that the
PE Plan reviewing meeting did in fact took place. It would be considered an
"Affirmation"

To sum it up, if you are an independent audit professional given the responsibility to audit
some thing that were supposed to follow CMMI in its entirety, these are the three areas of
evidences you will go through to properly execute the audit. The outcome will be used to
prepare the audit report as well as the basis for formulating your recommendations