Standards Update
The International Council on Systems Engineering Standards Initiatives group is one of the most active communities within INCOSE. Its members are working to advance and harmonize systems engineering standards used worldwide. INCOSE liaises with existing standards developing organizations, contributing to the development of standards and technical reports and participating in the planning for new work items related to systems engineering standards. Questions, ad-standards@incose.org
Current Systems Engineering Standards
ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288: 2015 – Systems and software engineering -- System Life Cycle Processes
Available for purchase from the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO). See http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail?csnumber=63711 for a description.
IEEE 15288.1-2014 – IEEE Standard for Application of Systems Engineering on Defense Programs
Available for purchase from Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). See https://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/15288.1-2014.html for a description.
IEEE 15288.2-2014 – IEEE Standard for Technical Reviews and Audits of Defense Programs
Available for purchase from Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE). See https://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/15288.2-2014.html for a description.
ISO/IEC/IEEE 15289:2015 - Content of systems and software life cycle information products
The 3rd edition of this standard was just published, but immediate revision is needed because an updated version of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, System and software engineering—system life cycle processes, was also published in May 2015. See https://standards.ieee.org/findstds/standard/15289-2015.html or http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=66422for a description.
ISO/IEC TR 24748-1:2010 – Guide for Life Cycle Management
Available for free from the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO). See http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=50502 for a description. This document is available in electronic form at no charge at http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/c050502_ISO_IEC_TR_24748-1_2010.zip.
ISO/IEC TR 24748-2:2011 – Guide for Application of 15288
Available for purchase from the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO). See http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=54994 for a description. Note that this technical report is based on ISO/IEC 15288:2008.
ISO/IEC TR 24748-3:2011 – Guide for Application of 12207
Available for purchase from the International Organization for Standardization
(ISO). See http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=54995 for a description.
ISO/IEC 15504: 2004 - Information Technology - Process Assessment
JTC1/SC7/WG10
Available for purchase from the International Organization for Standardization
- ISO/IEC 15504-1:2004 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 1: Concepts and vocabulary
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=38932
- ISO/IEC 15504-2:2003 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 2: Performing an assessment
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=37458
- ISO/IEC 15504-2:2003/Cor 1:2004
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=40192
- ISO/IEC 15504-3:2004 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 3: Guidance on performing an assessment
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=37454
- ISO/IEC 15504-4:2004 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 4: Guidance on use for process improvement and process capability determination
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=37462
- ISO/IEC 15504-5:2012 Information technology — Process Assessment — Part 5: An exemplar Process Assessment Model
http://www.iso.org/iso/home/store/catalogue_ics/catalogue_detail_ics.htm?csnumber=60555
- ISO/IEC TR 15504-6:2013 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 6: An exemplar system life cycle process assessment model
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=61492
- ISO/IEC TR 15504-7:2008 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 7: Assessment of organizational maturity
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=50519
- ISO/IEC PDTR 15504-8 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 8: An exemplar process assessment model for IT service management
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=50625
- ISO/IEC TS 15504-9:2011 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 9: Target process profiles
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=51684
- ISO/IEC TS 15504-10:2011 Information technology — Process assessment — Part 10: Safety extension
http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=54537
ISO/IEC 29110 (multi-part)
See http://profs.etsmtl.ca/claporte/English/VSE/index.html
ISO/PAS 19450:2015(en) - Automation systems and integration — Object-Process Methodology (OPM)
ISO TC184/SC5/WG1
Available for purchase from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) athttps://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:std:iso:pas:19450:ed-1:v1:en
ISO 10303-AP233, Industrial automation systems and integration -- Part 233: Systems engineering data representation
TC184/SC4/WG3/T8 (http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=55257)
ANSI/GEIA EIA-632, Processes for Engineering a System, 01 Sept 2003
Available for purchase from Techstreet.
Under revision by GEIA G-47 to align with ISO/IEC 15288; early stage of development (current status unknown). After publication will be fast tracked as an ISO standard.
EIA/IS 731.1, Systems Engineering Capability Model, Electronic Industries Alliance (Interim Standard), 01 Aug 2002
Available for purchase from Techstreet
IEEE 1220-2005, IEEE Standard for Application and Management of the Systems Engineering Process, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 09 Sept 2005
Available for purchase from Techstreet. See http://standards.ieee.org/reading/ieee/std_public/new_desc/se/1220-2005.html for a description and table of contents.
Revision from 1998 version to align IEEE 1220 with ISO/IEC 15288 and to provide a lower level of detail than 15288. In process of being fast-tracked to become an ISO Technical Report.
Other Standards
ANSI/AIAA G-043-1992, Guide for the Preparation of Operational Concept Documents
Being upgraded now by INCOSE and AIAA partnership.
IEEE 1471, 2000: IEEE Recommended Practice for Architectural Description of Software-Intensive Systems
Available for purchase from IEEE.
Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI)
All you need to know is available from the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute's CMMI website at http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmmi/
Merger of SW-CMM (from SEI) and SECM (EIA/IS 731)
Released in July 2000 (Combined SE/SW model)
Later release with IPPD elements (version 1.1), Jan 2002
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Available for download from the Object Management Group (OMG) at http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.3/.
An older version was approved as an ISO standard: ISO/IEC 19501:2005 Information technology - Open Distributed Processing - Unified Modeling Language (UML) Version 1.4.2 As of March 2011, there is a final draft international standard ISO/IEC 19505, comprising OMG Unified Modeling Language (OMG UML) Version 2.1.2 -- Part 1: Infrastructure and Part 2: Superstructure
For additional information, refer to http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/index.htm.
OMG Systems Modeling Language (OMG SysML™)
The OMG released SysML Version 1.2 as a formal specification in June 2010.
Latest information is available at the official OMG SysML site at http://www.omgsysml.org
UML Profile for DoDAF/MODAF (UPDM)
Unknown beta draft version was released in November 2010.
Useful Websites
ISO has established an Online Browser Platform (OBP), which supports viewing (no printing or saving) of the informative clauses in many standards. Normative text is not available, but this provides a preview of the introduction, scope, and other normative text that might be useful for determining the usefulness of a particular standard. The committee search page for the Online Browser Platform is at https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search. The main page is https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/.
ISO has made a number of standards “free available”, that is, free-of-charge. Many of these standards and technical reports provide frameworks and foundations for other standards projects, so are useful during the development process, but in other cases, ISO has agreed to requests by standards committees to make certain standards available without any cost recovery. Seehttp://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html.
Some information on standards projects in ISO/IEC JTC 1 Subcommittee 7, Systems and Software Engineering, is available at http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink?func=ll&objId=8914042&objAction=browse&sort=name. Much of the site is password protected, but the meetings and resolutions page provides reports presented at Plenary (generally in the spring) and Interim (generally in autumn) meetings.
INCOSE participates in ISO/IEC JTC1 Subcommittee 27, IT Security Techniques, through the US Technical Advisory Group to SC27. This gave INCOSE an opportunity to participate without waiting for approval of official status as a Category A Liaison. Additional information is available at http://www.din.de/en/meta/jtc1sc27. Development of positions is led by the INCOSE Systems Security Engineering WG.
ISO TC 292 recently established a public web site on security and resilience athttp://www.isotc292online.org/ . There are descriptions of the many standards projects related to the topics.