Identifying the technologies and organizations

You can identify the standards organizations to get involved with by taking an inventory of the technologies that you are using. Take a look at your development environment and your development stack. Learn about your programming language – how it is standardized, the basics, the features, the classes, pre-defined libraries and functions, the threading model, the intricacies of the language, and the ecosystem.

Learn about the software and hardware you are using. There are inevitably some components that are based on standardized architecture, APIs, and specifications.

Investigate which technologies you might be implementing or using as a solution in the future. There may be technologies you want to use that are based on a standard. Learning about the standard will sometimes take longer than learning about the technology, but once you identify the technology, you can go deeper into learning how that technology is developed...