New ISO/IEC 12207:2008

The 2008 version of ISO/IEC 12207 has been released. This new version of 12207 is the first step that ISO/IEC is taking to fully harmonized ISO/IEC 12207 with ISO/IEC 15288 System life cycle processes standard.

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Additional ISO/IEC 12207, News

Niigata, Japan, WG 7 Meeting

WG 7 met in Niigata, Japan 24 May to 28, 2010. At the meeting there were 39 delegates from thirteen countries and two liaison organization.
The highlights were:

• Guide - ISO/IEC TR 15271 Guide for ISO/IEC 12207 and ISO/IEC TR 19760 Guide for ISO/IEC 15288 will become ISO/IEC TR 24748.
• Document ISO/IEC 24748 “Systems and software engineering - Guide for life cycle management” is divided into the following parts:

• Part 1 ”Guide for life cycle management”-ECD of publication third quarter of 2010
• Part 2 “Guide for ISO/IEC 15288 (System Life Cycle Processes)” to replace ISO/IEC TR 19760:1998, updated to reflect the changes in ISO/IEC. 15288:2008 and according to the terms of reference defined in WG 7 N1128. ECD of publication fourth quarter of 2010
• Part 3 “Guide for ISO/IEC 12207 (Software Life Cycle Processes)” to replace ISO/IEC TR 15271:1998, updated to reflect the changes in ISO/IEC 12207:2008 and according to the terms of reference defined in WG 7. N1129. ECD of publication fourth quarter of 2010

• New quality standard - ISO/IEC 15026 System and Software Assurance is design as a four part document.
• Part 1 Concept and vocabulary
• Part 2 Assurance cases
• Part 3 System integrity levels
• Part 4 Assurance in the life cycle
• Release date is probably mid 2011
• PM standard -ISO/IEC 16326 Project Management is released
• Requirement Engineering Standard ISO/IEC 29148. ECD of publicationforth quarter 0f 2010
• The Integration/Harmonization of IEE 1220 with ISO/IEC/15288 - Project assigned to a study group with a path ahead for this project by the forth quarter of 2010
• Commence work on a new V and V standard for system and software
• ISO/IEC 26702 Application and management of systems engineering.  Possible publication date early 2011

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The next meetings of ISO/IEC JTC1/SC 7 WG7 are as follows:

• Washington DC (Gathers, MD), USA November1-5, 2010
• Paris France May, 2011
• Open November 2011

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