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ISO/Iec 15504 Case Study

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Crimson group. Project B
A study of ISO/IEC 15504 Information Technology-Process Assessment

Introduction
ISO/IEC 15504 also known as SPICE (Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination), is a set of technical standards for the computer software development process and related business management functions. It is another joint international Organisations for standardization and international Electrotechnical Commission standard. ISO/IEC 15504 initially was derived from process lifecycle standard ISO 12207 and from maturity models like Bootstrap, Trillium and the CMM (Amazon.co.uk 2016). EL Emam and Birk (2002) describe ISO/IEC 15504 as “a newly appearing international standard on software process assessment and it defines a number of software engineering processes and a scale for measuring capability”.
The three fundamental concepts of the standard are the process reference model (PRM), the process assessment model …show more content…

ISO/IEC 15504-5:2012 provides an in-depth description of the structure and key components of the Process Assessment model, which includes two dimensions, a process and capability dimension. It introduces assessment indicators also. “The process assessment model is a two-dimensional model of process capability” (ISO/IEC 2012). In one dimension the process dimension, the processes are defined and classified into a number of process categories. In the other dimension, the capability dimension, a set of process attributes grouped into capability levels is defined. The process attributes provide the measurable characteristics of process capability. A process assessment model contains a set of indicators of process performance and process capability. The indicators are used as a basis for gathering the objective evidence that allows an accessor to assign

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