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International Conference on Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination

SPICE 2014: Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination pp 268–273Cite as

Designing Systems Engineering Profiles for Very Small Entities

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To address the systems lifecycle needs of Very small entities, a set of standards and guides have been recently 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. This short paper presents an overview of this new systems engineering standard and discusses certification scheme needs and future developments.

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  1. École de technologie supérieure, Montréal, Canada

    Claude Y. Laporte

  2. Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  3. Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

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  1. Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania

    Antanas Mitasiunas

  2. Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

    Terry Rout

  3. Dublin City University, Ireland

    Rory V. O’Connor

  4. InterSPICE Ltd, Cambridge, UK

    Alec Dorling

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Laporte, C.Y., O’Connor, R.V. (2014). Designing Systems Engineering Profiles for Very Small Entities. In: Mitasiunas, A., Rout, T., O’Connor, R.V., Dorling, A. (eds) Software Process Improvement and Capability Determination. SPICE 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 477. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13036-1_25

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