BS ISO/IEC 15504-3:2004 - Page 2

Information technology. Process assessment. Guidance on performing an assessment | Status: Superseded, Withdrawn

1 Scope This part of ISO/IEC 15504 provides guidance on meeting the minimum set of requirements for performing an assessment contained in ISO/IEC 15504-2. It provides an overview of process assessment and interprets the requirements through the provision of guidance on:

1. a) performing an assessment;
2. b) the measurement framework for process capability;
3. c) process reference models and process assessment models;
4. d) selecting and using assessment tools;
5. e) competency of assessors;
6. f) verification of conformity.

This document uses the following schema: the text inside a box is quoted from the normative ISO/IEC 15504-2 and the text following a box is guidance about the normative text. If the quoted text includes a clause reference, it is understood that ISO/IEC 15504-2 should be referred to.