ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7/WG 20 - Software and systems bodies of knowledge and professionalization

This document is part one of the ISO/IEC 24773 series. It contains the requirements which will be common to all other parts of the ISO/IEC 24773 series, for certifications (schemes and bodies) in the domain of software and systems engineering.

ISO/IEC TR 29154:2013 is a guide for the application of ISO/IEC 24773:2008. It addresses terminology used in ISO/IEC 24773. It also includes interpretive guidance on several clauses of ISO/IEC 24773, as well as a review of potential typical scenarios for use of ISO/IEC 24773.

ISO/IEC 24773:2008 establishes a framework for comparison of schemes for certifying software engineering professionals. A certification scheme is a set of certification requirements for software engineering professionals. ISO/IEC 24773:2008 specifies the items that a scheme is required to contain and indicates what should be defined for each item. ISO/IEC 24773:2008 will facilitate the portability of software engineering professional certifications between different countries or organizations. At present, different countries and organizations have adopted different approaches on the topic that are implemented by means of regulations and bylaws. The intention of ISO/IEC 24773:2008 is to be open to these individual approaches by providing a framework for expressing them in a common scheme that can lead to understanding.