IEEE/EIA 12207 as the Foundation for Enterprise Software Processes

Quote from the abstract: "It is widely believed that the adoption of predefined processes aids the productivity and quality of software development. Furthermore, it is widely believed that the adoption of these processes at the enterprise level provides advantages of repeatability and organizational maturity that amplify the benefits. Unfortunately, the existing corpus of software engineering practice standards has been targeted for adoption at the project level rather than the enterprise level. A new standard, IEEE/EIA 12207, Software Life Cycle Processes, addresses this problem--it is intended as an integrating, organizing, strategic standard specifically directed to enterprise adoptio