Using ArchiMate to model ISO/IEC 29110 standard for very small entities

•ArchiMate language is proposed for modeling the ISO/IEC 29110 standard.•Metamodel for the ISO/IEC 29110 Basic Profile is developed.•Mapping of the Basic Profile metamodel elements to the ArchiMate language was performed.•Several views depicting the ISO/IEC 29110 standard are presented.•Benefits of using ArchiMate for modeling the ISO/IEC 29110 standard are discussed. Paper concentrates on the ISO/IEC 29110 standard aimed at improving systems and software engineering life cycle processes in very small entities, which has been recently developed and started to be implemented worldwide. With the purpose to facilitate development and maintenance of this standard and its implementation in very small entities utilization of ArchiMate is proposed. The ArchiMate is a widely accepted open standard for modeling Enterprise Architecture supported by a variety of modeling tools, which was also successfully used beyond Enterprise Architecture domain. The contribution of this paper lies in (1) the development of the ISO/IEC 29110 Basic Profile Metamodel; (2) the definition of the mapping between the ISO/IEC 29110 Basic Profile Metamodel and ArchiMate; (3) its evaluation using the Bunge-Wand-Weber (BWW) model; (4) the application of the mapping resulting in the development of the ISO/IEC 29110 Basic Profile ArchiMate Model being implemented in a modeling tool that is freely available and can be used by VSEs, assessors and standard developers.