Author: Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, CISQ About 2 months ago a blog article was written for the NDIA, exposing the difficulties of buying new IT systems by the Defense Department. Pentagon acquisitions chief Frank Kendall was on the hot seat during an April 30th hearing. Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman...... Read more →

By Sam Malek, CTO / Co-Founder of Transvive Inc., and CISQ Member If you have been following the news these days, you probably heard about the recall of some General Motors cars because of an ignition switch issue. It is estimated to be 2.6 million cars (1) and will cost... Read more →

Author: Tracie Berardi Last week, an article from IEEE SPECTRUM outlined the latest set of issues related to the Obamacare Affordable Care Act (ACA): hundreds of thousands of California Medi-Cal health insurance applications can’t seem to get past the approval finish line and significantly delay the start of healthcare coverage.... Read more →

Author: Tracie Berardi Last week, an article from IEEE SPECTRUM outlined the latest set of issues related to the Obamacare Affordable Care Act (ACA): hundreds of thousands of California Medi-Cal health insurance applications can’t seem to get past the approval finish line and significantly delay the start of healthcare coverage... Read more →

Author: Sridevi Devathi, HCL Estimation Center of Excellence, and CISQ Member In an ever competitive market, year-on-year productivity gains and output-based pricing models are standard ‘asks’ in most outsourcing engagements. Mature and accurate SIZING is the KEY in order to address the same! It is essential that the below stated... Read more →

Author: Tracie Berardi The Heartbleed Bug reinforces the need to monitor the quality of open source software OpenSSL came under fire this past week through the now infamous Heartbleed bug. This open source encryption software is used by over 500,000 websites, including Google, Facebook, and Yahoo to protect their customers’... Read more →

Author: Tracie Berardi The retail security crisis continues… A recent Wall Street Journal article exposed potential issues with Bitcoin’s transaction network. This left Tokyo-based Mt. Gox exchange and Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist at the Bitcoin Foundation, pointing fingers at each other. So far the retail industry has felt the pain... Read more →

Author: Tracie Berardi Last week Phil Libin, the CEO of Evernote, wrote an honest blog article titled “On Software Quality and Building a Better Evernote in 2014.” It was in response to an initial blog article by Jason Kinkaid which criticized Evernote for a decline in quality over the last... Read more →