Software organizations that develop their software products using the agile software processes such as Extreme Programming (XP) face a number of challenges in their effort to demonstrate that their process activities conform to ISO 9001 requirements, a major one being product traceability: software organizations must provide evidence of ISO 9001 conformity, and they need to develop their own pr...

A major concern for organizations who are seeking registration to ISO 9000 [12], or seeking the implementation of any quality related process [22][24], is the ability to estimate the work-effort required for meeting the stated requirements. This is a priori requirement in corporate decision making, regardless of the maturity level of the organization [10], the current state of the quality syste...

The paper addresses the issue of an efficient implementation and utilization of new management system parts into an existing landscape of standardized management system on the example of the integration of an energy management system (ISO 50001) into a quality management system (ISO 9001) and an environmental management system (ISO 14001). Therefore we conduct a comparative analysis of the ISO ...

The implementation of management systems in accordance with standards like ISO 9001:2008 (1,2) in the clinical laboratories has conferred and added value of reliability and therefore a very significant input to patient safety. As we know the ISO 9001:2008 (1) a certification standard, and ISO 15189:2012 (2) an accreditation standard, both, at the time have generated institutional memory where t...

The aim of our study is to review the published literature on establishment and implementation of ISO 9001 QMS in European hospitals, to study the availability of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) quality management systems (QMS) in Bulgarian hospitals and to outline the main advantages of ISO implementation in the hospitals in Bulgaria. The information on availability of ISO...

ISO 9001 Quality Management System (QMS) and Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) are quality management technologies, which can be applied to the software industry. This paper adopts these two management technologies to improve software process quality. ISO 9001 stresses the importance of building a QMS complying with the ISO guidelines of documation. CMMI stresses the importance of bu...