scope:

NEN-ISO/IEC 29155-3 provides general requirements and guidance for reporting processes and contents of typical reports within benchmarking activities of "the information technology (IT) project performance benchmarking framework" by prescribing: - requirements and guidance for the reporting processes within the benchmarking framework; - requirements and guidance for the contents of reports. This part of ISO/IEC 29155 focuses on three major activities, i.e. "conduct benchmarking", "maintain repository", and "issue benchmarks" activities. This part of ISO/IEC 29155 also focuses on two types of reports in the benchmarking framework: a) the benchmarking report, that describes the results of an instance of benchmarking; b) the explanatory report, that provides complementary information about the released benchmarking repository or benchmark(s). This part of ISO/IEC 29155 is intended for use by stakeholder(s) of IT project performance benchmarking (e.g. benchmarking user, benchmark provider, and benchmarking service provider). It is out of the scope of this part of ISO/IEC 29115 to prescribe the particular names, formats, or explicit contents of the reports of the benchmarking activities.