The conformance areas are derived from the CFIHOS business process.
The three main parts to the process are:
Each of these is broken down into phases and categories, which evidence of conformance can be linked to.
This part of the process has one phase, A – project standard preparation. This phase has several activities (as shown below), but only some of those are relevant to software conformance (the ones tagged A1 to A4):
This part of the process has four phases:
The first of these has the following activities for setting up the contractor’s systems:
The second of these phases has the following activities for preparing the information supply chain:
The remaining phases have the following activities for delivering and reviewing information:
This final part of the process has one phase, F – Principal handover to business systems. Its activities are shown below.