International Organization for Standardization

Systems and software engineering - Content of life-cycle information items (documentation) - Second Edition
 N ISO/IEC/IEEE 15289

Annotation

This International Standard specifies the purpose and content of all identified systems and software life-cycle and service management information items (documentation). The information item contents are defined according to generic document types, as presented in Clause 7, and the specific purpose of the document (Clause 10).

This International Standard assumes an organization is implementing life-cycle processes, or practicing service management, using one or more of the following:

- ISO/IEC 15288:2008 (IEEE Std 15288-2008), Systems and software engineering — System life cycle processes,

- ISO/IEC 12207:2008 (IEEE Std 12207-2008), Systems and software engineering — Software life cycle processes

- ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 (IEEE Std 20000-1-2013), Information technology — Service management — Part 1: Service management system requirements

This International Standard provides a mapping of ISO/IEC 15288:2008 (IEEE Std 15288-2008), ISO/IEC 12207:2008 (IEEE Std 12207-2008), and ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 (IEEE Std 20000-1-2013) and ISO/IEC 20000-2 (IEEE Std 20000-2-2013) clauses with a set of information items. It provides a consistent approach to meeting the information and documentation requirements of systems and software engineering and IT service management.

ISO/IEC 12207:2008 (IEEE Std 12207-2008) and ISO/IEC 15288:2008 (IEEE Std 15288-2008) define a set of processes for managing and performing the stages of a systems life cycle. They define an Information Management process, but they do "not detail documentation in terms of name, format, explicit content, and recording media". ISO/IEC 15288:2008 (IEEE Std 15288-2008), and ISO/IEC 12207:2008 (IEEE Std 12207-2008) establish a common framework for software life-cycle processes and in passing identify or require a number of documentation items. Its process reference model does not represent a particular process implementation approach, nor does it prescribe a system/software life-cycle model, methodology, or technique. ISO/IEC 12207:2008 (IEEE Std 12207-2008) does not always specify when software information items are to be prepared, nor does it identify information item contents. ISO/IEC 20000-1:2011 (IEEE Std 20000-1-2013) establishes comprehensive requirements for documents and records, with some specific requirements. ISO/IEC 20000-2:2012 (IEEE Std 20000-2-2013), Information technology — Service management — Part 2: Guidance on the application of service management systems provides guidance on the use of Part 1.