Herb Krasner, University of Texas at Austin (ret.), CISQ Advisory Board member A new law in Texas necessitates the enhanced monitoring of all large IT projects in state agencies. It requires regular measurement and reporting of project performance indicators: schedule, cost, scope, and quality. Quality is believed to be the... Read more →

The U.S. State Department Office of Acquisitions referenced code quality requirements in the Consular Systems Modernization (CSM) statement of work. From the State Dept. CSM acquisition document on page 23, section C.4.2: “The contractor shall adhere to CST application coding standards intended to assist in creating code that is free.... Read more →

Federal IT Acquisition Example Citing CISQ Metrics CISQ has been referenced by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), formally citing CISQ requirements in a Information Technology (IT) statement of work from the Office of the CIO for the Office of Public Buildings. GSA is an independent agency of the U.S... Read more →

Herb Krasner, University of Texas at Austin (ret.), CISQ Advisory Board member Here is a summary of the cybersecurity legislation that was passed this year that will have an impact on state agencies and institutions of higher education (all from the 85th regular session of the Tx legislature). The Tx..... Read more →

CISQ Advisory Board member, Herb Krasner, has released a position paper for Texas state CIOs and IT leaders seeking guidance on House Bill (HB) 3275 passed in June 2017 requiring the reporting of software quality measurement in Texas State IT projects. Krasner drafted the legislation that was signed into law... Read more →

Dr. Erik Beulen, Principal, Amsterdam office ([email protected]); Dr. Walter W. Bohmayr, Senior Partner, Vienna office ([email protected]); Dr. Stefan A. Deutscher, Associate Director, Berlin office ([email protected]); and Alex Asen, Senior Knowledge Analyst, Boston office ([email protected]) DevOps agility requires organizational adjustments and additional tooling to ensure cybersecurity. At the same time, the... Read more →

An event series now in its second year, Forrester Research is hosting the Digital Transformation Forum in cities across the U.S., Europe and India. CISQ is a proud partner along with parent organization, The Object Management Group® (OMG®). This week (May 9-10) we’ve been at Digital Transformation in Chicago with...... Read more →

Paul Bentz, Director of Government and Industry Programs, CISQ Digital leaders outperform their peers because they can quickly recognize and scale innovation across the business. According to Gartner, high-performing digital businesses lead because of their participation in a digital ecosystem. This means digital leaders will surround themselves with other innovators... ... Read more →

CISQ is working on a standard measure of Technical Debt. Technical debt is a measure of software cost, effort, and risk due to defects remaining in code at release. Like financial debt, technical debt incurs interest over time in the form of extra effort and cost to maintain the software....... Read more →