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Carnegie Mellon SEI and OMG Announce the Launch
of CISQ - The Consortium for IT Software
Quality
Pittsburgh, PA, and Needham, MA, USA - August 17, 2009 - The Carnegie
Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the Object Management
Group™ (OMG™) today announced a partnership to sponsor the
Consortium
of IT Software Quality (CISQ), an industry-led initiative to address
the measurement of critical IT application quality attributes.
"SEI provides a neutral environment for IT executives to address
quality challenges as an industry and develop the standards and
infrastructure necessary to address them," said Paul D. Nielsen,
director and CEO of the SEI. "OMG's success in standards development
and SEI's experience in software architecture, quality attributes, process
improvement, and network security make this a very strong partnership with
global reach."
"For several years IT executives have complained that there are no
industry standards for measuring the quality of business application
software," said Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D., chairman and CEO of OMG.
"CISQ will enable us to benchmark the effectiveness of internal
development, evaluate the quality of applications acquired from external
sources, and predict the quality and cost of IT services to the
business."
CISQ will bring together industry executives from Global 2000 IT
organizations, system integrators, outsourcers, and package vendors to
jointly address the challenge of standardizing the measurement of IT
software quality and to promote a market-based ecosystem to support its
deployment. One of CISQ's earliest objectives will be to develop an
industry standard that provides the detail necessary to automate the
measurement of quality attributes.
"For application quality measurement to be economically practical
it must be automated, and that requires a level of standardization that
does not exist today," said Soley.
CISQ's five primary objectives are to:
- Advise, educate, and be the voice to business and government leaders
on the strategic and mission critical importance of IT application
quality
- Develop standard measures of quality attributes to be used by IT and
the business for evaluating the software quality and risk of
multi-tier IT applications.
- Propose methods for using quality measures in negotiating and
managing the acquisition or maintenance of IT application software.
- Develop and promote professional licensing for those providing
services to assess the quality of IT application software.
- Establish an online IT industry forum for addressing IT application
quality issues.
CISQ's Director, Dr. Bill Curtis, co-author of the Capability Maturity
Model (CMM) and a Non-Resident Affiliate of the SEI, stated that he is
excited to work with IT leaders and technical experts from business and
government to tackle the growing complexity of multi-language, multi-tier
business applications. "Unless we address the quality challenges of
these systems, business and government operations will be placed at
unacceptable risk," said Curtis.
Capers Jones, a well-recognized IT industry expert has joined this
partnership as a CISQ Distinguished Advisor. He will contribute his
expertise in software quality and size measurement to the achievement of
CISQ's objectives. The inaugural CISQ Executive Forums will be held at the
SEI facilities on October 6th in the Arlington, Virginia, and November
12th in Frankfurt, Germany. The aim is to have a draft of the IT Quality
standard by the fourth quarter of 2010. Licensing of IT Quality service
providers is expected to begin during 2011.
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About the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute
The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a U.S. Department of
Defense federally funded research and development center operated by
Carnegie Mellon University. The SEI helps organizations make measured
improvements in their software engineering capabilities by providing
technical leadership to advance the practice of software engineering. For
more information, visit the SEI website at
http://www.sei.cmu.edu.
About OMG
OMG is an international, open membership, not-for-profit computer
industry consortium that in 2009 is celebrating its 20th Anniversary. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration
standards for a wide range of technologies, including: Real-time,
Embedded and Specialized Systems, Analysis & Design, Architecture-Driven
Modernization and Middleware and an even wider range of industries,
including: Business Modeling and Integration, C4I, Finance, Government,
Green Computing, Healthcare, Insurance, Legal Compliance, Life Sciences
Research, Manufacturing Technology, Robotics, Software-Based
Communications
and Space.
OMG’s modeling standards, including the Unified Modeling Language™
(UML®) and Model Driven Architecture® (MDA®), enable powerful visual
design, execution and maintenance of software and other processes,
including IT Systems Modeling and Business Process Management. OMG’s
middleware standards and profiles are based on the Common Object Request
Broker Architecture (CORBA®) and support a wide variety of industries.
More information about OMG can be found at
www.omg.org. OMG is
headquartered in Needham, MA, USA.
Note to editors: MDA, Model Driven
Architecture, OMG Logo, XMI, UML, UML logo and CORBA are registered
trademarks, and OMG, Object Management Group, Business Ecology,
Actionable Architecture, SOA Consortium, SysML, SoaML, MOF, MDA Logos,
BPMN, OCRES, OCUP, OCEB, Green Computing Maturity Model, GCMM,
Unified Modeling Language and "We Set the Standard" tagline are trademarks of Object Management Group. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Edited by Stephanie
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