ISO9000 Standards for Technical Documetation

["Daniel G. Dresner" <daniel -dot- dresner -at- NCC -dot- CO -dot- UK>]

Hi Phil,

You wrote 'but our developers who have worked for ISO9000-compliant software
companies insist that ISO standards for software documentation do exist.'

Not for ISO 9000 they don't! You *can* misinterpret ISO 9000 this way but
compliance means that you will have appropriate design, servicing, and
administration documentation under document control. What you put into it isn't
subject to standards unless your quality system says it is.

There a standards such as ISO 9127:1988 Information processing systems --
 User documentation and cover information for consumer software
packages.

I suggest that you visit http://www.iso.ch/ for a trawl. You may also be
interested in http://saturne.info.uqam.ca/Labo_Recherche/Lrgl/sc7/index.html
which is the ISO committee responsible for software (related) standards.

The benefits of ISO 9000 are usually lost because of the tales that your
developers believe in.

Best wishes . . .


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