Software Requirements Standard
(SRS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Software Lifecycle Governance
The Software Requirements Standard (SRS) governs how software
requirements are identified, specified, assessed for
completeness, accepted, changed, and traced throughout the
software lifecycle. It establishes the conditions under which
requirements form a legitimate and applicable basis for
software development, regardless of whether they originate
from humans, organizations, or AI systems.
SRS governs Software Requirements Governance.
Requested Functionality ≠ Governed Software Requirement. A
software requirement must have an identifiable purpose,
legitimate basis, defined applicability, and traceable
governance state before it can serve as a governed development
reference.
Software Creation Standard
(SCS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Software Lifecycle Governance
The Software Creation Standard (SCS) governs how software is
designed, generated, implemented, assembled, and transformed
through identifiable, authorized, and evidence-supported
creation processes. It establishes the conditions under which
software creation activities and resulting artifacts remain
aligned with governed requirements, legitimate authority,
defined execution boundaries, and reconstructable creation
evidence, regardless of whether creation is performed by
humans, organizations, AI agents, or autonomous systems.
SCS governs Software Creation Governance.
Software Creation Capability ≠ Software Creation Authority.
The ability to generate functional software does not establish
the authority to create it. Software creation must remain
connected to governed requirements, legitimate execution
boundaries, identifiable artifacts, and reconstructable
evidence before it can be recognized as a governed lifecycle
activity.
Software Dependency Standard
(SDS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Software Lifecycle Governance
The Software Dependency Standard (SDS) governs the
identification, introduction, evaluation, authorization,
maintenance, change, and continuity of internal and external
software dependencies upon which a software system relies. It
establishes the methodological conditions under which
dependencies may be recognized as legitimate, suitable,
compatible, evidence-supported, and governable throughout the
software lifecycle. SDS distinguishes technical dependency
availability from governed acceptance, dependency
functionality from operational sustainability, and dependency
inclusion from legitimate authority to introduce it.
SDS governs Software Dependency Governance.
Software Dependency Availability ≠ Governed Software
Dependency Acceptance.
Software Configuration Standard
(SCFS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Software Lifecycle Governance
The Software Configuration Standard (SCFS) governs the
identification, establishment, authorization, composition,
validation, change, and lifecycle continuity of software
configuration states. It establishes the conditions under
which configuration baselines, build processes, artifact
versions, parameters, and environment-specific settings remain
identifiable, internally consistent, evidence-supported, and
traceable to the configuration actually established throughout
the software lifecycle.
SCFS governs Software Configuration Governance.
Declared Software Configuration ≠ Governed Software
Configuration State. The existence of configuration files,
approved baselines, or successful builds does not establish
that the intended configuration has actually been realized.
Software configuration must remain identifiable, authorized,
verifiable, and traceable to its effective state before it can
be recognized as governed.
Software Quality Standard
(SQS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Software Lifecycle Governance
The Software Quality Standard (SQS) governs the definition,
assessment, verification, validation, acceptance, and
lifecycle continuity of software quality. It establishes the
conditions under which software quality requirements,
assessment criteria, testing evidence, observed behavior,
defect resolution, and acceptance decisions remain
identifiable, verifiable, and traceable to the software
artifact, configuration, and intended use actually evaluated.
SQS governs Software Quality Governance.
Declared Software Quality ≠ Demonstrated Software Quality.
Successful tests, favorable quality metrics, or formal
acceptance do not independently establish software correctness
or fitness for intended use. Software quality must remain
connected to defined criteria, competent evidence, observed
behavior, known defects, residual limitations, and explicit
acceptance conditions before it can be recognized as governed.
Software Security Standard
(SSS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Software Lifecycle Governance
The Software Security Standard (SSS) governs the
establishment, assessment, verification, determination,
acceptance, and lifecycle continuity of software security
conditions. It establishes the methodological conditions under
which software security can be recognized as an identifiable,
evidence-supported, and context-dependent governance state.
SSS governs security requirements, protected assets, threats,
attack surfaces, exposure, protective controls, security
testing, vulnerabilities, remediation verification, residual
risk, and security acceptance. It distinguishes declared
security from demonstrated security, implemented controls from
verified effectiveness, and security conformity from
authorized risk acceptance.
SSS governs Software Security Governance.
Declared Software Security ≠ Demonstrated Software Security.
Core Question: How can software security be defined,
demonstrated, assessed, and accepted through competent
evidence without mistaking implemented controls, successful
scans, or closed vulnerabilities for proof of sufficient
protection? Principal Output: Governed Software Security State
Software Release Standard
(SRLS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Software Lifecycle Governance
The Software Release Standard (SRLS) governs the
identification, preparation, readiness assessment,
authorization, recording, restriction, and withdrawal of
software releases throughout the software lifecycle. It
establishes the methodological conditions under which an
identifiable software release candidate may become an
authorized release through verified requirements alignment,
applicable quality and security conditions, configuration
integrity, evidence-supported readiness, and legitimate
release authority. SRLS distinguishes successful software
creation from release readiness, technical verification from
legitimate authorization, and release approval from deployment
permission. It preserves the applicability of release
decisions when software artifacts, dependencies,
configurations, or participating actors change.
SRLS governs Software Release Governance.
Software Release Readiness ≠ Software Release Authorization ≠
Deployment Authorization.
Software Deployment Standard
(SDPS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Software Lifecycle Governance
SDPS governs how authorized software releases enter real
operational environments under clearly defined authority,
conditions, and control. It ensures that every deployment has
an identifiable purpose, target environment, responsible
actor, and verifiable operational outcome. It distinguishes
permission to release software from permission to deploy it
into production, where its behavior may affect users,
infrastructure, and critical operations. It requires software
running in production to remain identifiable and consistent
with authorized versions, configurations, and deployment
conditions. It governs automated pipelines and autonomous AI
agents so that technical deployment capabilities never replace
legitimate operational authority. It establishes
deployment-state monitoring and controlled intervention when
software fails, operational conditions change, or recovery
becomes necessary. SDPS ensures that software is not merely
deployed, but introduced, verified, controlled, and recovered
under legitimate and traceable governance.
SDPS governs Software Deployment Governance Canonical
Definition: SDPS governs how authorized software releases
enter real operational environments under clearly defined
authority, conditions, and control. It ensures that every
deployment has an identifiable purpose, target environment,
responsible actor, and verifiable operational outcome. It
distinguishes permission to release software from permission
to deploy it into production, where its behavior may affect
users, infrastructure, and critical operations. It requires
software running in production to remain identifiable and
consistent with authorized versions, configurations, and
deployment conditions. It governs automated pipelines and
autonomous AI agents so that technical deployment capabilities
never replace legitimate operational authority. It establishes
deployment-state monitoring and controlled intervention when
software fails, operational conditions change, or recovery
becomes necessary. SDPS ensures that software is not merely
deployed, but introduced, verified, controlled, and recovered
under legitimate and traceable governance..
Software Change Management Standard
(SCMS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Software Lifecycle Governance
Software Change Management Standard (SCMS) establishes how
software changes are identified, justified, assessed,
coordinated, directed through applicable lifecycle governance
processes, verified, and formally resolved while preserving
traceability between the original change requirement and the
resulting software state.
SCMS governs Software Change Management Governance.
Every software change must remain governed by what it alters,
why the alteration is necessary, which lifecycle mechanisms
are affected, and whether the resulting state can be
legitimately and verifiably established. Core Question: How
can software changes remain identifiable, justified,
coordinated, authorized, traceable, and verifiably resolved
throughout the software lifecycle? Operational Role: SCMS
governs change requests, impact assessment, coordination,
lifecycle re-entry, implementation traceability, and closure
without replacing specialized software lifecycle standards.
Core Modules: Change Request Management (CRMM), Change Impact
Assessment (CIAM), Change Coordination Control (CHCM),
Lifecycle Re-entry Control (LRECM), and Change Closure
Management (CCLM). Canonical Closing Statement: A software
change is not governed merely because it was implemented; it
is governed when its purpose, consequences, authority,
lifecycle requirements, and resulting operational state can be
established through evidence. View Standard
Software Retirement Standard
(SRTS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Software Lifecycle Governance
Software Retirement Standard (SRTS) is the Parent Standard
within SLGA™ that governs the controlled retirement of
software products, versions, components, services,
dependencies, and operational capabilities. It establishes
software retirement as an evidence-supported lifecycle
transition rather than a simple discontinuation, deletion, or
termination of support. SRTS governs retirement planning,
end-of-support conditions, software migration, operational
withdrawal, residual dependencies, and retirement closure. It
requires the intended retirement state to be reconciled with
actual software conditions, continuing dependencies, data
relationships, operational responsibilities, and unresolved
obligations.
SRTS governs Software Retirement Governance.
Software retirement is complete only when the intended
operational withdrawal has been established and remaining
dependencies, data relationships, support conditions, and
obligations have been appropriately resolved, transferred, or
explicitly retained under governance. Core Question: How can
software be legitimately, safely, and verifiably retired when
its operational use, support obligations, dependencies, data,
users, authority relationships, and residual responsibilities
may continue beyond the decision to discontinue it?
Operational Role: Establishes the governance requirements for
identifying, planning, authorizing, transitioning,
withdrawing, verifying, and formally closing software
retirement while preserving dependency accountability,
operational continuity, and residual obligations. View
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Software Lifecycle Control Standard
(SLCS)
Category: Governance & EnforcementSubcategory: Software Lifecycle Governance
Software Lifecycle Control Standard (SLCS) establishes the
cross-cutting governance framework that maintains consistency,
legitimacy, continuity, and verifiability of software
lifecycle states, transitions, exceptions, authority
relationships, and control mechanisms across the complete
software lifecycle. It ensures that declared lifecycle
conditions remain aligned with actual operational reality and
that governance remains effective across all ten specialized
Parent Standards of SLGA™.
SLCS governs Software Lifecycle Control Governance.
A software lifecycle remains governed only when its declared
states, actual operational conditions, authorized transitions,
responsible actors, and supporting evidence remain consistent
throughout the lifecycle. Core Question: How can software
remain identifiable, controllable, and governable throughout
its lifecycle when its states, transitions, actors,
dependencies, operational conditions, authority relationships,
and governance requirements continuously change? Operational
Role: Establishes continuous lifecycle state consistency,
transition control, exception governance, control transfer and
continuity, and evidence-supported assessment of lifecycle
control effectiveness. Canonical Closing Statement: Software
lifecycle governance is not simply the governance of
individual stages. It is the preservation of legitimate
control across every transition between them. View Standard