ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 29110-2 First edition 2011-01-15 Software engineering Lifecycle profiles for Very Small Entities (VSEs)- Part 2: Framework and taxonomy Ingenierie du logiciel- Profils de cycle de vie pour tres petits organismes(TPO)- Partie2:Cadregénéralettaxinomie Reference number ISO/IEC 29110-2:2011(E) IEC ISO @ISO/IEC2011 ISO/IEC29110-2:2011(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but downloading this file, parties accept therein the responsibility of not infringing Adobe's licensing policy. The ISO Central Secretariat accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation parameters were optimized for printing. Every care has been taken to ensure that the file is suitable for use by ISO member bodies. In the unlikely event that a problem relating to it is found, please inform the Central Secretariat at the address given below. COPYRIGHTPROTECTEDDOCUMENT @ISO/IEC2011 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and microfilm, without permission in writing from either Iso at the address below or ISO copyright office Case postale56:CH-1211Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii @ ISO/IEC 2011 -All rights reserved ISO/IEC29110-2:2011(E) Contents Page Foreword Introduction.. 1 1.1 Fields of application.. 1.2 Target audience. 2 Conformance to standardized profiles. 2.1 Introduction........ 2.2 General principles . 2.2.1 Tailoring and exclusions .. 2.2.2 Extensions... 2.2.3 2.3 Conformance requirements for standardized profiles 2.3.1 Conformance situations.. 2.3.2 Conformance to a standardized profile..... 2.3.3 Limitedconformanceto the base standards included inthe standardizedprofile. 3 Normative references... 4 Terms and definitions 5 Conventions and abbreviated terms.. 5.1 Naming, diagramming and definition conventions. 5.2 Abbreviations..... 6 Software engineering profiles for vSEs. 6.1 6.2 Purpose of standardized profiles . 6.3 Preparation of profiles ... 7 Preparing profiles of Software Engineering standards. 7.1 Rationale for SE profiles.... 7.2 Profiling lifecycle product standards .... 7.3 Profiling lifecycle process standards. 7.4 Relating process and product standards in profiles. 7.5 Addingassessmentspecificationtoprofiles 7.5.1 Process reference models.... 7.5.2 Specifying profiles with capability levels 7.6 Graduated profiles.... 12 8 The vSE profile taxonomy principles... 8.1 VSE classification dimensions... 8.2 DecouplingVsEclassificationfromprofilepreparation... .15 8.3 Graduating a profile group... 15 9 Taxonomy of vSEprofile groups.. 9.1 Introduction....... 9.2 The"Generic" profile group... 9.3 Profiles within the "Generic" profile group .... .16 9.3.1 The Entry profile .. 16 9.3.2 The Basic profile.... 9.3.3 The Intermediate profile. 9.3.4 The Advanced profile .... 10 Guidelines forthe specificationof vSEprofiles .... 10.1 Profile tables .. 7 @ ISO/IEC 2011-All rights reserved ii