International Organization for Standardization

Systems and software engineering - Information technology project performance benchmarking framework - Part 3: Guidance for reporting - First Edition
 N ISO/IEC 29155-3

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This part of ISO/IEC 29155 provides general requirements and guidance for reporting processes and contents of typical reports within benchmarking activities of “the information technology (IT) project performance benchmarking framework” by prescribing:

— requirements and guidance for the reporting processes within the benchmarking framework;

— requirements and guidance for the contents of reports. This part of ISO/IEC 29155 focuses on three major activities, i.e. “conduct benchmarking”, “maintain repository”, and “issue benchmarks” activities.

NOTE 1 These activities are selected, not only because the importance of the outcomes of these activities, but also the outcomes of these activities are the direct input for benchmarking users who execute “core benchmarking” activities. In addition, benchmarking users are not usually so deeply involved to these activities even though they need in-deep information to understand the benchmarking results or to select appropriate data (i.e. benchmarking repository and benchmarks). This part of ISO/IEC 29155 also focuses on two types of reports in the benchmarking framework:

a) the benchmarking report, that describes the results of an instance of benchmarking;

b) the explanatory report, that provides complementary information about the released benchmarking repository or benchmark(s).

This part of ISO/IEC 29155 is intended for use by stakeholder(s) of IT project performance benchmarking (e.g. benchmarking user, benchmark provider, and benchmarking service provider).