An Implementation Approach of ISO/IEC 29110 for Government Organizations

Organizations in software industry become aware that adopting comprehensive software process such as Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) and ISO12207 can improve their process and produce high degree of quality software. However, successful implementation of such expensive and complicated Software Process Improvement (SPI) methods in small organizations is generally not possible because these organizations have limited budget and resources. ISO/IEC 29110 is mainly developed for Very Small Entities (VSEs) — up to 25 employees’ organization — which reduces process complexity, cost of implementation and time overhead, but still remains the essential elements of effective processes that finally improve the performance. This paper reviews ISO/IEC 29110, and goes into details of implementing preparation and approach, as well as lesson learnt from adopting this standard into a small IT department in government academic institute based on analysis, recommendations and experiences in the aim of proposing quality process schema that suitable for such kind of organizations.