This book provides an inexpensive and comprehensive approach to ISO 9001 registration. The book is for executives, quality managers, and project leaders of small and medium-sized software development organizations. The book assists executives, quality managers and project leaders to: reduce the time to register their companies' quality management systems and engineering processes to ISO 9001 · identify and prioritize the activities required to plan, execute, and complete the registration process · assess the costs of registration · make the interactions with consultants and registrars more productive · increase the likelihood of success the first time the company attempts ISO 9001 registration.