Systems and software engineering standards for very small entities: accomplishments and overview
Laporte, Claude and O'Connor, RoryORCID: 0000-0001-9253-0313
(2016)
Systems and software engineering standards for very small entities: accomplishments and overview.
Computer, 49
(8).
pp. 84-87.
ISSN 0018-9162
A large majority of organizations are very small entities (VSEs) — enterprise, government, or not-for- pro t organizations; departments; or projects with up to 25 people who develop systems with hardware and software components and/or soft- ware products. Their products are sold to their customers directly or are integrated into those developed by larger organizations, possibly distributed to thousands of users worldwide, as illustrated in Figure 1.