scope:

This part of ISO/IEC 29110 defines the process assessment guidelines and conformance requirements needed to meet the purpose of defined VSE Profiles. It is applicable to all VSE Profiles and is compatible with ISO/IEC 33002. The possible uses of this part of ISO/IEC 29110 are as follows: a) Assessment to evaluate the process capabilities. This is when an organization wants an assessment execution in order to obtain a process profile of the implemented processes. b) Provider's capability assessment. This is when a customer asks for a third party to conduct an assessment in order to obtain a process profile of the implemented process by the system or software development and maintenance provider. The customer chooses the processes to be assessed depending on the services to be contracted.