Software Management and Organisation
Software Management and Organisation
As a minimum, the supplier shall implement the parts of EN ISO 9001 dealing with the organisation and
management of the personnel and responsibilities.
A lifecycle model for the development of software shall be selected. It shall be detailed in the
Software Quality Assurance Plan in accordance with 6.5.
The lifecycle model shall take into account the possibility of iterations in and between phases.
Quality Assurance procedures shall run in parallel with lifecycle activities and use the same
terminology.
The Software Quality Assurance Plan, Software Verification Plan, Software Validation Plan and
Software Configuration Management Plan shall be drawn up at the start of the project and maintained
throughout the software development life cycle
All activities to be performed during a phase shall be defined and planned prior to the
commencement of the phase.
All documents shall be structured to allow continued expansion in parallel with the development
process.
For each document, traceability shall be provided in terms of a unique reference number and a
defined and documented relationship with other documents
Each term, acronym or abbreviation shall have the same meaning in every document. If, for historical
reasons, this is not possible, the different meanings shall be listed and the references given
Except for documents relating to pre-existing software (see 7.3.4.7), each document shall be written
according to the following rules:
– it shall contain or implement all applicable conditions and requirements of the preceding document
with which it has a hierarchical relationship;
– it shall not contradict the preceding document.
Each item or concept shall be referred to by the same name or description in every document.
The contents of all documents shall be recorded in a form appropriate for manipulation, processing
and storage.
When documents which are produced by independent roles are combined into a single document,
the relation to the parts produced by any independent role shall be traced within the document
Documents may be combined or divided in accordance with 5.3.2.12. Some development steps
may be combined, divided or, when justified, eliminated, at the discretion of the Project Manager and
with the agreement of the Validator
Where any alternative lifecycle or documentation structure is adopted it shall be established that it
meets all the objectives and requirements of this European Standard.
Documentation
Category
Input
Documentation Impementation Reference
Output Document Name
pementation Reference V&V
Remark/ Status
Tagging V&V Method used V&V Reference
V&V
V&V Result V&V Result Reference