How software organizations are using the ISO/IEC 29110 standard’s processes

ISO/IEC 29110 was developed containing a set of industrially validated practices that can potentially be adopted by software Very Small Entities (VSE) – enterprises, organizations, departments or projects up to 25 people dedicated to software development. VSEs usually have characteristics that differentiate them from organizations of different sizes, such as extremely limited resources and informal project management processes, tending to adopt Agile methods and having an historical resistance to the adoption of standards, that are in general developed for large organizations. In this sense, a research question arises: "How are software organizations using the ISO/IEC 29110 practices?". To answer this question, a Systematic Mapping Study (SM), and a Survey with software organizations were carried out in order to identify the state of the art and practice in relation to the use of the standard’s practices. Thus, two sets of collected raw data are presented: the data extracted from the primary studies by the Mapping Study (SM), and; the data obtained through the Survey with companies. The SM identified 21 primary studies reporting the use of the standard in hundreds of software organizations, while the Survey obtained responses from 23 software companies.ISO/IEC 29110 标准的研制包含一套经工业界验证的实践规范，可由超小型软件实体（Very Small Entities, VSE）采用——这里的VSE指员工规模不超过25人、专注于软件开发的企业、组织、部门或项目。超小型软件实体通常具备与其他规模层级的组织显著不同的特征：资源极度有限、项目管理流程非正规化，往往倾向于采用敏捷开发方法，且长期以来对专为大型组织制定的标准存在抵触心理。由此引出研究问题：“软件组织应如何落地应用ISO/IEC 29110标准的实践规范？”为解答该研究问题，研究团队开展了一项系统性映射研究（Systematic Mapping Study, SM）以及面向软件组织的问卷调查，旨在梳理该标准实践方法的应用现状与前沿实践。本次研究公开两组原始采集数据集：一是该系统性映射研究从初步研究文献中提取的数据，二是企业问卷调查所获数据。该系统性映射研究共筛选出21项初步研究，报告了该标准在数百家软件组织中的应用情况；而本次问卷调查共回收23家软件企业的有效响应。