ISO/IEC 15504

ISO/IEC 15504 Information technology – Process assessment, also termed Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination (SPICE), is a set of <a href="/facts/Technical_standard/P4orT1SM">technical standards</a> documents for the computer <a href="/facts/Software_development/UUfsAaYY">software development</a> process and related business management functions. It is one of the joint <a href="/facts/International_Organization_for_Standardization/IacYR7Yg">International Organization for Standardization</a> (ISO) and <a href="/facts/International_Electrotechnical_Commission/hSK0kjwI">International Electrotechnical Commission</a> (IEC) standards, which was developed by the ISO and IEC joint subcommittee, <a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_JTC_1%2fSC_7/7299j8ys">ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7</a>.
ISO/IEC 15504 was initially derived from process lifecycle standard <a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_12207/SfW3N1Y0">ISO/IEC 12207</a> and from maturity models like Bootstrap, <a href="/facts/Trillium_Model/p202pSfd">Trillium</a> and the <a href="/facts/Capability_Maturity_Model/PxQXfSYJ">Capability Maturity Model</a> (CMM).
ISO/IEC 15504 has been superseded by <a href="/facts/ISO%2fIEC_33001/bQ0Egt9P">ISO/IEC 33001</a>:2015 Information technology – Process assessment – Concepts and terminology as of March, 2015.

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