ISO/IEC 29110-4-1:2018系列适用于非常小的实体（VSE）。VSE是最多有25人的企业、组织、部门或项目。ISO/IEC 29110系列中描述的生命周期过程无意阻止或阻止比VSE更大的组织使用它们。 ISO/IEC 29110系列中定义的生命周期过程可供VSE在使用以及创建和提供软件系统时使用。它们可以应用于软件系统结构的任何级别和生命周期的任何阶段。 ISO/IEC 29110系列中描述的工艺并不旨在排除或阻止VSE认为有用的其他工艺的使用。本文档并不打算排除使用不同的生命周期，如瀑布、迭代、增量、进化或敏捷。 ISO/IEC 29110-4-1:2018提供了基本配置文件的配置文件规范。基本配置文件适用于参与软件开发的VSE。它从单个项目的角度选择ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207项目管理和软件实施过程元素。 ISO/IEC 29110-4-1:2018提供了ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207子集的规范性和信息性链接。

ISO/IEC 29110-4-1:2018 series is applicable to Very Small Entities (VSEs). VSEs are enterprises, organizations, departments or projects having up to 25 people. The lifecycle processes described in the ISO/IEC 29110 series are not intended to preclude or discourage their use by larger organizations than VSEs. The lifecycle processes defined in the ISO/IEC 29110 series can be used by VSEs when using, as well as when creating and supplying, a software system. They can be applied at any level in a software system's structure and at any stage in the lifecycle. The processes described in the ISO/IEC 29110 series are not intended to preclude or discourage the use of additional processes that VSEs find useful. This document is not intended to preclude the use of different life cycles such as: waterfall, iterative, incremental, evolutionary or agile. ISO/IEC 29110-4-1:2018 provides a profile specification for the Basic profile. The Basic profile applies to VSEs involved in software development. It selects ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207 project management and software implementation process elements from the single project perspective. ISO/IEC 29110-4-1:2018 provides the normative and informative links to the subset of ISO/IEC/IEEE 12207.