scope:

NPR-ISO/IEC 29110-3-4 series is applicable to Very Small Entities (VSEs). A VSE is an enterprise, an organization, a department or a project having up to 25 people. The lifecycle processes described in ISO/IEC 29110 are not intended to preclude or discourage their use by organizations bigger than VSEs. The lifecycle processes defined in ISO/IEC 29110 can be used by VSEs when acquiring, using, creating, and supplying, a system or a software. They can be applied at any level in a system/software's structure and at any stage in the lifecycle. The processes described in ISO/IEC 29110 are not intended to preclude or discourage the use of additional processes that VSEs find useful. The autonomy-based improvement method, described in this part of ISO/IEC 29110, provides a tool to improve the "way of work" (i.e. a process) regarding systems and software development practically. This process includes defining a technological theme (objectives), the outcome regarding the theme, and implementing activities to steadily gain the outcome. This method can be used in various situations such as - improvement tool for development teams, - self-training or self-check tool for engineers, and - improvement tool for the VSE.