Title
The development of international standards to facilitate process improvements for very small entities
Date Issued
31 July 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
book part
Author(s)
Laporte C.Y.
École de Technologie Supérieure
Publisher(s)
IGI Global
Abstract
Industry recognizes that Very Small Entities (VSEs) that develop software are very important to the economy. A Very Small Entity (VSE) is an entity (enterprise, organization, department or project) with up to 25 people..Failure to deliver a quality product on time and within budget threatens the competitiveness of VSEs and impacts their customers. One way to mitigate these risks is to put in place proven software engineering practices. Many international standards and models, like ISO/IEC 12207 or CMMI®1, have been developed to capture proven engineering practices. However, these documents were not designed for VSEs and are often difficult to apply in such settings. This chapter presents a description of the development of process improvement international standards (IS) targeting VSEs developing or maintaining software as a standalone product or software as a component of a system. The documents used by ISO/IEC JTC1/SC72 Working Group 24 (WG24), mandated to develop a set of standards and guides, and the approach that led to the development, balloting of the ISs, and TRs (Technical Reports) for VSEs are also presented. The chapter focuses on the ISO/IEC 29110 Standard3, the development of means to help VSEs improve their processes, and the description of a few pilot projects conducted to implement the processes of ISO/IEC 29110 standard.
Start page
1335
End page
1361
Volume
April 3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería, Tecnología
Ingeniería eléctrica, Ingeniería electrónica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84944687081
ISBN
1466643013
9781466643017
Resource of which it is part
Software Design and Development: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications
ISBN of the container
9781466643024
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus