Software and Standards

[matze42]

Hi,

our company currently plans to get accredited by
ISO 9001 quality-management standard ( in germany ).

Softwaredevelopment is a great part in our business.
Now the question came up, if there is any Software-Standard, we have to
consider in our quality-management.

I found some Standards about Basic Dialog-Design. But this seems a little bit less to me.

Maybe someone here in the forum has experiences with accreditation and certification exspecially in the context of Softwaredevelopment- and Design.

I hope I made myself clear with the above question. If not let me know, i will try to explain it more detailed.

Greetings,
Matze

[Emiene]

When using the term software, I think I am talking about the product and the process producing that product. So I guess you mean these two's quality.
Software engineering is always based on analytical models to
1. Understand the nature of processes and products
2. Grasp the variations of them
3. Figure out how they connect together
4. Analyze and predict future changes and possible faults during operations in a long run

These four points indicates your assumption on the software standard is mistaken

[edit]I intend to add 3 more points to sum up to 7 but, well...enough

[yamakh]

seems to be a good starting point:

Carnegie Mellon Capability Maturity Model for Software - http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmm/cmm.html
IBM Rational Unified Process: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rup/

[ovidiucucu]

I hope, this thread can be also useful.