Since 1994, the IEEE Software Engineering Standards Committee has been following a strategy to achieve the desired level of integration of the individual standards within the collection. The collection has been aligned with key international standards and with key standards in related disciplines such as quality management and project management. And all IEEE software engineering standards dealing with software processes and the data that they produce have been harmonized with the umbrella standard. The IEEE Software Engineering standards collection has grown large enough so that users can no longer expect to intuitively understand the relationships among the various component standards. Developed with direct input from software engineering professionals around the world, IEEE has updated and restructured its software engineering standards into a framework of terminology, quality management, software engineering and system disciplines.
Software engineering is performed by a project.
The project interacts with customers and uses resources to perform processes and produce products.