Systems Engineering Standards Landscape — Signpost (pointers only)
This is a signpost, not a knowledge pack. It carries no standards-body content —
no reproduced clauses, no synthesised summaries of the normative text. Almost every
SE-related standard is paywalled and/or all-rights-reserved (ISO/IEC/IEEE, INCOSE, OMG,
SAE/EIA, ECSS, NATO, CMMI, CEN, AIAA), so they cannot be reconstituted into a
redistributable pack — see this repo's docs/SOURCE-VETTING.md. What this skill does:
tell you which standard you want, who owns it, whether it can be packaged, and where to
get the authentic copy.
When to use
You need to identify, cite, or locate an SE standard (e.g. "what's the system life-cycle process standard?" → ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288; "the requirements engineering standard?" → ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148). This routes you to the authoritative source. For the topics covered by genuinely open sources, it points you at the installable pack instead.
Prerequisites: none — plain Markdown.
How to use
Find your standard or topic below. The Status column tells you whether it's redistributable:
- 🔴 Excluded — paywalled or no redistribution grant; buy/download from the owner. Cannot be packaged here.
- 🟢 Open — public-domain or open-licensed; an installable pack exists or is planned (named in the row).
Where a licence permits citation, the owner's catalogue/abstract page is given; for ISO,
every standard has a page at iso.org/standard/<number>.html.
Foundations — vocabulary & bodies of knowledge
| Standard | Title / purpose | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| SEBoK | Guide to the SE Body of Knowledge | BKCASE (Stevens) | 🟢 Open — pack: sebok (CC BY-NC-SA) |
| INCOSE SE Handbook (5th Ed) | Breadth-of-SE reference; basis for SE certification | INCOSE (Wiley) | 🔴 Excluded — copyrighted; buy from INCOSE/Wiley |
| SE Vision 2035 | INCOSE strategic vision for SE | INCOSE | 🔴 Excluded — free download, no redistribution grant; get from incose.org |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 | Systems & software engineering — Vocabulary (also online as SEVOCAB at pascal.computer.org) | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org (SEVOCAB browsable free) |
Life-cycle processes & concepts
| Standard | Title / purpose | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 | System life cycle processes — the core SE process standard | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/81702.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-1 | Guidelines for life cycle management | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/84709.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-2 | Guide to applying 15288 | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/84661.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-4 | SE management planning (SEMP) | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/56887.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-6 | System & software integration | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/81563.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-7 | SE on defense programs (was IEEE 15288.1) | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/90139.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-8 | Technical reviews & audits on defense programs (was IEEE 15288.2) | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/91563.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-10 | Guidelines for SE agility | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/90086.html |
| SAE 1001 | Integrated project processes for engineering a system (replaced ANSI/EIA 632) | SAE | 🔴 Excluded — sae.org |
| NATO AAP-48 | NATO system life cycle processes | NATO | 🔴 Excluded — NATO/standards portals |
| ISO/IEC 29110 | Life-cycle profiles for very small entities (VSEs) | ISO/IEC | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/82669.html (some 29110 parts are free from ISO — check the series) |
Process elaborations (one process each)
| Standard | Title / purpose | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 | Requirements engineering | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/72089.html · open alternative: pack requirements-writing (EARS + quality, original CC BY 4.0) |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 | Architecture description | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/74393.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 42020 | Architecture processes | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/68982.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 42024 | Architecture fundamentals | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/87510.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 42030 | Architecture evaluation framework | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/73436.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 42042 | Reference architectures | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/87310.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 15939 | Measurement process | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/71197.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 16085 | Risk management (life-cycle) | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/74371.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 16326 | Project management | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/75276.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 15289 | Content of life-cycle information items | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/74909.html |
| ISO 31000 | Risk management — guidelines | ISO | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/65694.html (open alternatives for risk: NASA packs nasa-risk, nasa-system-safety; DoD mil-std-882) |
| IEC 31010 | Risk assessment techniques | IEC | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/72140.html |
| ISO 10007 | Configuration management guidelines | ISO | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/70400.html |
| IEEE 828 | Configuration management in systems & software | IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — standards.ieee.org |
| ANSI/EIA-649C | National consensus standard for configuration management | SAE/EIA | 🔴 Excluded — sae.org |
| EIA 748D | Earned value management system | SAE/EIA | 🔴 Excluded — sae.org |
| ANSI/AIAA G-043B | Guide to preparing operational concept (ConOps) documents | AIAA | 🔴 Excluded — arc.aiaa.org |
Assurance, security & dependability
| Standard | Title / purpose | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 15026-1..4 | Systems & software assurance — concepts/vocab (-1), assurance case (-2), integrity levels (-3), assurance in the life cycle (-4) | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org (89808 / 80625 / 84444 / 74396) |
| IEC 62853 | Open systems dependability | IEC | 🔴 Excluded — webstore.iec.ch |
| NIST SP 800-160 Vol 1 | Systems Security Engineering — engineering trustworthy secure systems | NIST | 🟢 Open — US-gov public domain · planned pack nist-sse (note: contains some reprinted IEEE material) |
| NIST SP 800-160 Vol 2 | Developing cyber-resilient systems — an SSE approach | NIST | 🟢 Open — US-gov public domain · planned pack nist-sse |
(Adjacent open NIST packs already shipped: nist-csf, nist-ssdf, nist-ai-rmf.)
Modelling, MBSE & product-line
| Standard | Title / purpose | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| OMG SysML v2.0 | Systems Modeling Language | OMG | 🔴 Excluded — omg.org/spec/SysML · see also pack omg-signpost |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 24641 | Methods & tools for model-based systems & software engineering | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/79111.html |
| ISO 19450 | Object Process Methodology (OPM) | ISO | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/84612.html |
| ISO 10303-233 | Product data representation & exchange — AP233 (systems engineering) | ISO | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/55257.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 26550 | Reference model for product-line engineering & management | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/69529.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 26580 | Feature-based product-line engineering | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/43139.html |
Systems of systems
| Standard | Title / purpose | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 21839 | SoS considerations in life-cycle stages | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/91120.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 21840 | Utilizing 15288 in the context of SoS | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/71956.html |
| ISO/IEC/IEEE 21841 | Taxonomy of SoS | ISO/IEC/IEEE | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/79111.html |
Assessment, governance & enterprise/quality
| Standard | Title / purpose | Owner | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| ISO/IEC TS 33060 | Process assessment model for system life-cycle processes | ISO/IEC | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/87701.html |
| CMMI-DEV V3.0 | Capability Maturity Model Integration for development | ISACA/CMMI Institute | 🔴 Excluded — cmmiinstitute.com |
| ISO 9001 | Quality management systems — requirements | ISO | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/62085.html |
| ISO 15704 | Requirements for enterprise reference architectures & methodologies | ISO | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/71890.html |
| ISO 19439 | Framework for enterprise modelling | ISO | 🔴 Excluded — iso.org/standard/33833.html |
| CEN EN 9277 | Programme management — guide for the management of SE | CEN | 🔴 Excluded — CEN/national bodies |
Space-sector SE (ECSS)
All ECSS standards are 🔴 Excluded: ESA holds copyright, no reproduction without explicit
consent, and non-members are directed to cite rather than rewrite. Download (free, with
registration) from ecss.nl.
| Standard | Title / purpose |
|---|---|
| ECSS-E-ST-10C | SE general requirements |
| ECSS-E-ST-10-02 | Verification |
| ECSS-E-ST-10-06 | Technical requirements specification |
| ECSS-E-ST-10-24 | Interface management/control |
| ECSS-M-ST-10 | Project planning & implementation |
| ECSS-M-ST-40 | Configuration & information management |
| ECSS-M-ST-60 | Cost & schedule management |
| ECSS-M-ST-80 / M-00-03 | Risk management |
Topic → standard quick map
- Vocabulary → ISO/IEC/IEEE 24765 (SEVOCAB)
- Life-cycle processes → ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 (+ 24748 series for guidance)
- Requirements → ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 (open:
requirements-writing) - Architecture → ISO/IEC/IEEE 42010 / 42020 / 42030
- MBSE / modelling → OMG SysML, ISO/IEC/IEEE 24641, ISO 19450 (OPM)
- Risk → ISO 31000 / IEC 31010 / ISO-IEC-IEEE 16085 (open:
nasa-risk,mil-std-882) - Configuration management → IEEE 828 / ANSI-EIA-649C / ISO 10007
- Measurement → ISO/IEC/IEEE 15939
- Assurance / security → ISO/IEC/IEEE 15026 series; NIST SP 800-160 v1/v2 (open →
nist-sse) - Systems of systems → ISO/IEC/IEEE 21839 / 21840 / 21841
- Defense application → ISO/IEC/IEEE 24748-7 / 24748-8 (open DoD-process:
dau-se-guidebook) - Maturity assessment → ISO/IEC TS 33060, CMMI-DEV (open TRL maturity:
gao-tra) - Quality / enterprise → ISO 9001 / ISO 15704 / ISO 19439
- Space → ECSS series (ecss.nl)
Why most of these can't be packaged
A knowledge pack reproduces and transforms a source into new published files — that's redistribution plus derivative work, which needs an actual grant. ISO/IEC/IEEE, SAE/EIA, INCOSE, CMMI, CEN, AIAA, and IEC standards are paywalled and all-rights-reserved. OMG and ECSS are downloadable but their licences forbid network-posting and/or modification. None of those grant what a pack needs, so they sit on this repo's Excluded list. This signpost stays clean by holding only designations, titles, purposes, owners, and citation URLs — facts and citations, never the normative text. Where a source is open (NIST public-domain; original CC-BY guidance), there's a real pack and this points to it.
Signpost content © JG Systems Consulting Ltd. (MIT). Standard designations and titles are identified for reference only; "INCOSE", "SysML", "CMMI", "ECSS", and standard numbers are the property of their respective owners (ISO, IEC, IEEE, INCOSE, OMG, SAE, ESA, NATO, CEN, AIAA, ISACA, NIST). Named here for identification, not endorsement.
