Acceptance Criteria
What is Acceptance Criteria?
Predefined conditions that a risk, control, or deliverable must meet to be formally accepted, serving as a benchmark for risk-based decision-making.
Terms that appear alongside acceptance criteria
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as acceptance criteria. The number is how many controls name both.
- risk acceptance 3 shared controls
- availability 3 shared controls
- eu ai act 3 shared controls
- risk assessment 2 shared controls
- iso 31000 2 shared controls
- risk treatment 2 shared controls
- audit 2 shared controls
- policy 2 shared controls
Frameworks that govern acceptance criteria
What the standards actually require on acceptance criteria
Requirements naming acceptance criteria across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Acceptance criteria decide in evaluation whether a risk is acceptable and in treatment whether a proposed treatment is enough or more is needed, and the organisation defines levels of acceptance.
iso-27005-2022::6.4.2 · Risk acceptance criteria →Unless severity or controllability is judged to remove the risk, targets are set for the risk of the hazardous behaviour, and any claim that risk is absent is reviewed along with its supporting evidence.
iso-21448-2022::6.5 · 6.5 Specification of acceptance criteria for the residual risk →The organization sets acceptance criteria and, where suitable or required, has the customer approve them; for sampling of attribute data the acceptance level is zero defects.
iatf-16949-2016-quality-management-system-for-automotive-production::8.6.6 · 8.6.6 Acceptance criteria →Define and communicate clear acceptance criteria and test methods that reflect the intended use, context and potential risks identified under practice 3, and carry out pre-deployment testing.
australia-guidance-for-ai-adoption-2025::5.1.2 · 5.1.2 Define acceptance criteria and test before deployment →Acceptance criteria for software units are established before integration into larger items, as appropriate, and units are shown to meet them, such as implementing the requirements including risk control measures, consistency with the documented interfaces, an...
iec-62304-2015-medical-device-software-lifecycle-processes::5.5.3 · 5.5.3 Software unit acceptance criteria →When the delivery team for the operational phase contains other appointed parties that act as task teams, the lead party issues each of them appropriate EIR (ISO 19650-3) covering the points in 5.2.2 (security, information to capture and level of information n...
iso-19650-organisation-and-digitisation-of-information-about-buildings-and-civil-engineering-works-bim::3:5.4.3 · 5.4.3 Establish the lead appointed party's EIR (ISO 19650-3) →Questions people ask about acceptance criteria
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