Abstract:
Very small entities, organizations with up to 25 people, are very
important to the worldwide economy. The products they develop are either
developed specifically for a customer or are integrated into products made by
larger enterprises. To address the needs of Very small entities, a set of standards
and guides have been developed using the systems engineering lifecycle
standard ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 as the main framework. The systems
engineering handbook, developed by the International Council on Systems
Engineering (INCOSE), is used as the reference for the development of a set of
systems engineering deployment packages. Two pilot projects, using the new
ISO/IEC 29110 guide for systems engineering, are presented as well as a cost
and savings analysis. Finally, the certification scheme is discussed as well as
the future developments.