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A draft guideline in the ISO/IEC 29110 series for very small entities. It covers business management, then project management, then system definition and realisation, and finally acquisition management in the Intermediate profile. It replaces the 2019 Technical Report for the same part. It is not a certifiable management system standard.

An enterprise, organisation, department or project of up to 25 people. The count is of the entity doing the work, not the whole group, and a department can be the entity inside a larger firm. The series says it does not preclude larger organisations.

Use the Basic profile for a single project with a single work team. Use the Intermediate profile when the firm runs parallel projects run by more than one work team. The Intermediate guide was developed from the Basic profile, with elements added or modified for that situation.

No. The document is a guideline inside a profile, not a certifiable management system standard, and no certificate is issued against it. A firm can be assessed against a profile by a third party, and some schemes do that, but the guideline itself does not confer certification.

This site uses 18 February 2027 as a planning date. It is our arithmetic, 120 days from the record date, not an ISO announcement. The public record shows stage 50.00 dated 15 July 2026 and no publication date, so the date is a planning device only.

The public record says the draft replaces ISO/IEC TR 29110-5-6-3:2019. The draft body is not public, so the precise changes are not stated here. What can be said is what the transition requires of the firm: compare current practice, re-baseline the templates, retrain the roles and set a review trigger.

The free register is a 40-practice checklist: one practice per unit, with the evidence, the common gaps and the questions. The paid kit turns the same rows into a working spreadsheet and a dated plan. It is not a clause-by-clause checklist of the draft, because the draft is not public.

The artefact that proves the practice was performed: a dated plan, a requirements baseline, an allocation matrix, a test record, an acceptance record, a change log or an evidence index with an owner for every row. The test is whether a named person can produce it on request.

The kit sequences the work across 120 days to the planning date, then the first 90 days after publication. A firm that already follows the Basic profile can compress the early steps. A firm with no process assets should expect the full window and should not pretend otherwise.