ISO 15288 is a standard that address the process life cycle management of projects and operations for systems, not just software.

Planning and management needs to achieve project goals and provide value.

It also needs to reduce risk of not achieving the goals.

• ISO 15288 provides a generic system life cycle
• 26 processes covering the common, generic sets of activities that occur in systems projects with systematic process interactions

ISO 15288 provide a model life cycle but not necessarily the actual business implementation. This requires careful interpretation and adjustment from the generic system processes to the real business processes. Added value is achieved when the processes also explicitly reduce business risk. Practical process profiles applied to a management system that meets ISO 15288 standard provides value to the enterprise and to their clients by reducing risk and increasing the value of processes and activities.

We are experts in ISO 15288 and using ISO 15504 part 6 to do process assessments for ISO 15288.