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| Written by Graham Stoney | |||
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If you're not familiar with international standards, there's nothing to fear; and here are two which will help you in your system engineering efforts immensely. ISO/IEC 15288: “System Engineering – System Life Cycle Processes” defines a set of development life cycle processes and associated terminology for all the processes required in the system development life cycle. It doesn't dictate what the process should be, but it does describe all the essential elements that a complete system engineering process should have. I suggest you use the same terms, and give them the same meaning, within your organisation. The standard is a little dry, but it is accompanied by an excellent technical report ISO/IEC TR 19760: "Systems engineering -- A guide for the application of ISO/IEC 15288 (System life cycle processes)" which is very readable, and highly recommended if you want to give your engineers an understanding of what System Engineering is, and how it could benefit them in their work within your organisation. Another nice thing about ISO/IEC 15288 is that it is closely related to the relevant software engineering standard, ISO 12207: “Software Engineering – Software Life Cycle Processes”. They share the same terminology; so the two work really well together when integrating a software development process. Social Bookmark this page:         
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