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The recently published ISO/IEC 29110 standard Lifecycle profiles for Very Small Entities has at its core a Management and Engineering Guide [1] which are targeted at very small entities (enterprises, organizations, departments or projects) having up to 25 people [2], to assist them unlock the potential benefits of using standards which are specifically designed to address their needs. This paper will outline this new standard and the implementation of a series of pilot project initiative harnessing a set of detailed guidelines known as “Deployment Packages” to assist very small entities in understanding the potential usage of this new software process standard.
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O’Connor, R.V., Laporte, C.Y. (2011). Using ISO/IEC 29110 to Harness Process Improvement in Very Small Entities. In: O‘Connor, R.V., Pries-Heje, J., Messnarz, R. (eds) Systems, Software and Service Process Improvement. EuroSPI 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 172. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22206-1_20
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