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Desert Island Standards
Intermediate
By National Computing Centre
Daniel Dresner of the National Computing Centre introduces eight standards which will help form strong foundations for your organisation's ICT systems.
The article include brief introductions to the following standards.
- ISO 15288 Information Technology - Life Cycle Management - System Life Cycle Phases
- ISO 9126 Software engineering - Product quality
- BS 15000 IT Service Management
- ISO 15504 Information technology - Software process assessment
- The Data Protection Act 1998
- STARTS Software Techniques for Reliable, Strusted Sytems
- e-GIF - the e-Government Interoperability Framework
- ISO 18019 Guidelines for the design and preparation of user focumentation for application software
Dresner says what each standard is for, and why and how you should use it.
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Published: 27th September 2006
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