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ISO 15939 Document Information:
Title
Systems and software engineering — Measurement process
International Organization for Standardization
Publication Date:
Aug 1, 2007
Scope:
Purpose.
This International Standard identifies the activities and tasks
that are necessary to successfully identify, define, select, apply
and improve measurement within an overall project or organizational
measurement structure. It also provides definitions for measurement
terms commonly used within the system and software industries.
This International Standard does not catalogue software
measures, nor does it provide a recommended set of measures to
apply on software projects. It does identify a process that
supports defining a suitable set of measures that address specific
information needs.
Field of application
.
This International Standard is intended to be used by suppliers
and acquirers. Suppliers include personnel performing management,
technical and quality management functions in system and software
development, maintenance, integration and product support
organizations. Acquirers include personnel performing management,
technical and quality management functions in procurement and user
organizations. The following are examples of how this International
Standard can be used:
by a supplier to implement a measurement process to address
specific project or organizational information requirements;
by an acquirer (or third-party agents) for evaluating
conformance of the supplier's measurement process to this
International Standard;
by an acquirer (or third-party agents) to implement a
measurement process to address specific technical and project
management information requirements related to the acquisition;
in a contract between an acquirer and a supplier as a method for
defining the process and product measurement information to be
exchanged.
Tailoring this International Standard
This International Standard contains a set of activities and
tasks that comprise a software measurement process that meets the
specific needs of software organisations and projects. The
tailoring process consists of modifying the non-normative
descriptions of the tasks to achieve the purpose and outcomes of
the software measurement process. All normative clauses shall be
satisfied. New activities and tasks not defined in this
International Standard may be added as part of tailoring.
Conformance
Conformance to this International Standard is defined as
satisfying the purpose and outcomes of the measurement process and
all of the normative clauses within the tasks in Clause 5. Any
organisation imposing this International Standard as a condition of
trade is responsible for specifying and making public all
task-specific criteria to be imposed in conjunction with this
International Standard.
Throughout this International Standard, “shall” is used to
express a provision that is binding on the party that is applying
this International Standard, “should” to express a recommendation
among other possibilities, and “may” to indicate a course of action
permissible within the limits of the International Standard.
It is the responsibility of the organisation to maintain
appropriate evidence of satisfaction of the normative clauses for
purposes of demonstrating conformance.
Limitations
This International Standard does not assume or prescribe an
organisational model for measurement. The user of this
International Standard should decide, for example, whether a
separate measurement function is necessary within the organisation,
whether the measurement function should be integrated within
individual software projects, or across projects, based on the
current organisational structure, culture, and prevailing
constraints.
This International Standard is not intended to prescribe the
name, format, or explicit content of the documentation to be
produced. The International Standard does not imply that documents
be packaged, or combined in some fashion. These decisions are left
to the user of the International Standard.
The measurement process should be appropriately integrated with
the organisational quality system. Not all aspects of internal
audits and non-compliance reporting are covered explicitly in this
International Standard, as they are assumed to be in the domain of
the quality system.
This International Standard is not intended to conflict with any
organisational policies, standards, or procedures that are already
in place. However, any conflict should be resolved and any
overriding conditions and situations need to be cited in writing as
exceptions to the application of the International Standard.
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