ISO/IEC 29110-5-4:2025

Systems and software engineering — Life cycle profiles for very small entities (VSEs) — Part 5-4: Agile software development guidelines

This document provides guidelines for very small entities (VSEs) that want to reinforce their agile environment to develop software using an agile approach with practices of the ISO/IEC 29110 series. This document is applicable to VSEs that do not develop business- or safety-critical products.

Ingénierie des systèmes et du logiciel — Profils de cycle de vie pour très petits organismes (TPO) — Partie 5-4: Lignes directrices relatives au développement de logiciels agiles

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 21-Sep-2025
• ICS: 35.080 - Software
• Technical Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 - Software and systems engineering
• Drafting Committee: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 - Software and systems engineering
• Current Stage: 6060 - International Standard published
• Start Date: 22-Sep-2025
• Due Date: 23-Dec-2025
• Completion Date: 22-Sep-2025

Standards Content (Sample)

International
Standard
ISO/IEC 29110-5-4
First edition
Systems and software
2025-09
engineering — Life cycle profiles for
very small entities (VSEs) —
Part 5-4:
Agile software development
guidelines
Ingénierie des systèmes et du logiciel — Profils de cycle de vie
pour très petits organismes (TPO) —
Partie 5-4: Lignes directrices relatives au développement de
logiciels agiles
Reference number
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Contents Page
Foreword .v
Introduction .vi
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3  Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 1
3.1 Terms and definitions .1
3.2 Abbreviated terms .6
4  Naming, diagramming and definition conventions . 6
5 Overview . 7
5.1 General .7
5.2 Project management process of Basic profile and the agile events performed to manage
the project .7
5.3 Software implementation process of Basic profile and the agile events performed to
implement the project .8
5.4 Roles involved.9
6 Agile software development process .10
6.1 Agile project management process .10
6.1.1 Agile project management process purpose .10
6.1.2 Agile project management process outcomes .10
6.1.3 Overview of the agile project management process.10
6.2 Agile software implementation process .11
6.2.1 Agile software implementation process purpose .11
6.2.2 Agile software implementation process outcomes .11
6.2.3 Overview of the agile software implementation process . 12
6.3 Event 1 - project vision meeting (contributes to outcome PM.O1) . 13
6.3.1 Justification . 13
6.3.2 Overview of event 1- project vision meeting .14
6.3.3 Tasks of event 1 - project vision meeting .14
6.4 Event 2 - estimation meeting (contributes to outcomes PM.O1, PM.O5) . 15
6.4.1 Justification . 15
6.4.2 Overview of the event 2 - estimation meeting . 15
6.4.3 Tasks of event 2 - estimation meeting .16
6.5 Event 3 - sprint planning (contributes to outcomes PM.O1, PM.O2, PM.O4, PM.O7, SI.O1,
SI.O3, SI.O5) .17
6.5.1 Justification .17
6.5.2 Overview of event 3 – sprint planning .18
6.5.3 Tasks of event 3 – sprint planning .18
6.6 Event 4 – sprint (contributes to outcomes PM.O2 PM.O3, SI.O3, SI.O4, SI.O5, SI.O7) .21
6.6.1 Justification .21
6.6.2 Overview of event 4 – sprint .21
6.6.3 Tasks of event 4 - sprint . 22
6.7 Event 5 - daily scrum (contributes to outcomes PM.O2, PM.O3, PM.O4, PM.O5, PM.O7) . 25
6.7.1 Justification . 25
6.7.2 Overview of event 5 - daily scrum . 25
6.7.3 Tasks of event 5 - daily scrum . 25
6.8 Event 6 - sprint review (contributes to outcomes PM.O2, PM.O3, PM.O4, SI.O5, SI.O7) .27
6.8.1 Justification .27
6.8.2 Overview of event 6 – sprint review .27
6.8.3 Task of event 6 – sprint review .27
6.9 Event 7 - sprint retrospective (contributes to outcomes PM.O2, PM.O3, PM.O4, PM.O7) . 30
6.9.1 Justification . 30
6.9.2 Overview of event 7 – sprint retrospective . 30
6.9.3 Task of event 7 – sprint retrospective . 30

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7 Role descriptions .32
8 Work products description .35
Annex A (informative) Example of work products templates .59
Annex B (informative) Overview of popular agile methods .65
Annex C (informative) Development of the guidelines for the reinforcement of an agile
environment . 67
Annex D (informative) Development of the guidelines for the reinforcement of an agile
environment .70
Bibliography .72

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