The Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) is an IT industry group comprising IT executives from the Global 2000, systems integrators,

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s, and software technology vendors committed to making improvements in the quality of IT

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Overview

Jointly organized by the

Software Engineering Institute The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is an American research and development center headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Its activities cover cybersecurity, software assurance, software engineering and acquisition, and component capabi ...

(SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University and the

Object Management Group The Object Management Group (OMG) is a computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a range of technologies. Business activities The goal of the OMG was a common portable and interoperab ...

(OMG), CISQ is designed to be a neutral forum in which customers and suppliers of IT application software can develop an industry-wide agenda of actions for defining, measuring, and improving IT software quality.

History

CISQ was launched in August 2009 by 24 founders including SEI and OMG. The founders of CISQ are Paul D. Nielsen, Director and CEO of SEI and Richard Mark Soley, Chairman and CEO of OMG.

Bill Curtis Bill Curtis (born 1948) is a software engineer best known for leading the development of the Capability Maturity Model and the People CMM in the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and for championing the spread of ...

, the co-author of the CMM framework is CISQ's first Director. Software measurement and productivity expert

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is a CISQ Distinguished Advisor. In September 2012, CISQ published its standard measures for evaluating and benchmarking the

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, performance efficiency, and

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of IT software. In January 2013, OMG adopted Automated Function Point specifications. In May 2013 CISQ reached 500 members. In December 2013,

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become the fourth major sponsor to join the list of industry participants investing in the completion and adoption of CISQ standards in the IT industry.

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.it-cisq.org Software quality

Overview

History

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