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Policy
A policy is the key element in the engineering process, and there are orga-
nizational, soware planning, and control procedures to support these
key elements. e signicant activities are dened in this chapter. To con-
duct a successful soware development program, one should understand
the scope of the work to be accomplished.
4.1 POLICY UNDERSTANDING
A policy provides a mission statement of direction and guidance for so-
ware industries and military and aerospace programs. Policies are the
highest level of authority and are consistent with the vision one should use
to be successful.
In the past ...