Organization
- person or group of people that has its own functions with responsibilities, authorities and relationships to achieve its objectives.
~ ISO 14017:2022, Environmental management — Requirements with guidance for verification and validation of water statements - group of people and facilities with an arrangement of responsibilities, authorities, and relationships
~ ISO/IEC 33001:2015, Information technology — Process assessment — Concepts and terminology - company, firm, enterprise, association or other legal entity, whether incorporated or not, or public body
~ ISO 10845-1:2020, Construction procurement — Part 1: Processes, methods and procedures
Policy
- intentions and direction of an organization as formally expressed by its top management.
~ ISO 14298:2021, Graphic technology — Management of security printing processes - set of rules related to a particular purpose
Note 1 to entry: A rule can be expressed as an obligation, an authorization, a permission or a prohibition.
~ ISO/TS 21089:2018, Health informatics — Trusted end-to-end information flows - clear and measurable statement of preferred direction and behavior to condition the decisions made within an organization
~ ISO/IEC/IEEE 15289:2019, Systems and software engineering — Content of life-cycle information items (documentation)
Requirement
- provision that conveys criteria to be fulfilled
~ ISO/IEC 11404:2007, Information technology — General-Purpose Datatypes (GPD) - need or expectation that is stated, generally implied or obligatory
~ ISO 20468-1:2018, Guidelines for performance evaluation of treatment technologies for water reuse systems — Part 1: General - need or expectation, stated or generally implied, whose fulfillment is obligatory
~ SO 17566:2011, Space systems — General test documentation - statement which translates or expresses a need and its associated constraints and conditions
~ ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2023, Systems and software engineering — System life cycle processes
Principle
- fundamental truth, proposition or assumption that serves as foundation for a set of beliefs or behaviours or for a chain of reasoning.
~ ISO 37000:2021, Governance of organizations — Guidance - fundamental, primary assumption and quality which constitutes a source of action determining particular objectives or results
Note 1 to entry: A principle is usually enforced by rules that affect its boundaries.
Note 2 to entry: A principle is usually supported through one or more rules.
Note 3 to entry: A principle is usually part of a set of principles which together form a unified whole.
EXAMPLE:Within a jurisdictional domain, examples of a set of principles include a charter, a constitution, etc.
~ ISO/IEC 15944-17:2024, Information technology — Business operational view — Part 17: Fundamental principles and rules governing Privacy-by-Design (PbD) requirements in an EDI and collaboration space context
Quality
- degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfils requirements.
Note 1 to entry: The term “quality” can be used with adjectives such as poor, good, or excellent.
Note 2 to entry: “Inherent”, as opposed to “assigned”, means existing in something, especially as a permanent characteristic.
~ ISO 19101-1:2014: Geographic information — Reference model — Part 1: Fundamentals
Assurance
- grounds for justified confidence that a claim has been or will be achieved
~ ISO/IEC TR 15443-1:2012, Information technology — Security techniques — Security assurance framework — Part 1: Introduction and concepts - planned and systematic activities implemented, and demonstrated as needed, to provide adequate confidence that an entity fulfils its requirements
~ ISO 10795:2019, Space systems — Programme management and quality — Vocabulary
Framework
- logical structure for classifying and organizing complex information
~ ISO/TS 19150-1:2012, Geographic information — Ontology — Part 1: Framework - particular set of beliefs, or ideas referred to in order to describe a scenario or solve a problem
~ ISO 15638-20:2020, Intelligent transport systems — Framework for cooperative telematics applications for regulated commercial freight vehicles (TARV) — Part 20: Weigh-in-motion monitoring - structure of processes and specifications designed to support the accomplishment of a specific task
~ ISO/IEC 21823-1:2019, Internet of things (IoT) — Interoperability for internet of things systems — Part 1: Framework - documented set of guidelines to create a common understanding of the ways of working
~ ISO 37500:2014, Guidance on outsourcing - description of a system at a high organizational or conceptual level that provides neutral ground upon which a community of stakeholders can discuss issues and concerns related to a large, complex system
~ ISO/IEC TR 15067-3-8:2020, Information technology — Home Electronic System (HES) application model — Part 3-8: GridWise transactive energy framework
Structure
- set of interrelated parts of any complex thing, and the relationships between them
~ ISO 10303-235:2019, Industrial automation systems and integration — Product data representation and exchange — Part 235: Application protocol: Engineering properties and materials information - combination of a set of elements, a set of functions, and sets of tuples for each relation
~ ISO 18629-1:2004, Industrial automation systems and integration — Process specification language — Part 1: Overview and basic principles - organization of relations among objects of a system describing constituency relations (consist-of/is-a-part-of)
~ ISO 81346-12:2018, Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial products — Structuring principles and reference designations — Part 12: Construction works and building services
Architecture
- conceptual structure of a system
Note 1 to entry: A system may consist of several interacting subsystems, each with its own architecture.
~ ISO/IEC TR 29108:2013, Information technology — Terminology for intelligent homes - conceptual structure of systems that are to communicate with each other
~ ISO/IEC TR 15044:2000, Information technology — Terminology for the Home Electronic System (HES) - structure and means by which components and devices of a system are connected to intercommunication
~ ISO 16484-2:2004, Building automation and control systems (BACS) — Part 2: Hardware - representation of the structure of the item or element that allows identification of building blocks, their boundaries and interfaces, and includes the allocation of requirements to these building blocks
~ ISO 26262-1:2018, Road vehicles — Functional safety — Part 1: Vocabulary