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 →
07/14/2017
Measuring IT Project Performances in Texas: House Bill (HB) 3275 Implications
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07/11/2017
How Outsourcing Can Mitigate Cyberrisks in DevOps

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 →
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05/11/2017
“Risk-Managed” Digital Transformation at Forrester Forum
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 →
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05/03/2017
CIOs Can Master Transformation By Becoming Digital Leaders
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 →
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02/15/2017
Survey on Time-to-Fix Technical Debt
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 →
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10/20/2016
Event Summary: Cyber Resilience Summit, October 20, 2016
CYBER RESILIENCE SUMMIT: Ensure Resiliency in Federal Software Acquisition Topic: Improving System Development & Sustainment Outcomes with Software Quality and Risk Measurement Standards Hosted by: Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) in cooperation with Object Management Group, Interoperability Clearinghouse, IT Acquisition Advisory Council Date: 20 October 2016 from 0800 –...... Read more →
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09/30/2016
Sourcing Innovation
Lev Lesokhin, EVP Strategy and Analytics, CAST CISQ Governing Board Member I just had the opportunity to spend a day at the Gartner Sourcing Summit. Always a useful event and interesting to catch up with the latest in the IT sourcing space. I thought I’d share just a couple observations....... Read more →
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09/15/2016
Takeaways from the 2016 Software Risk Summit
Tracie Berardi, CISQ Program Manager Software risk has historically been overlooked as a security concern by business leaders, and companies have paid a high price as a result. Remember the debacle earlier this year when HSBC services went down, leaving customers unable to access their online banking? That was during...... Read more →
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04/04/2016
“Government Gets a ‘D’ for Cybersecurity”
Secure Coding Standards Needed for Cyber Resilience On March 15, 2016 the Consortium for IT Software Quality (www.it-cisq.org), with support from the IT Acquisition Advisory Council (www.it-aac.org), hosted IT leaders from the U.S. Federal Government to discuss IT risk, secure coding standards, and areas of innovation to reduce the risk..... Read more →
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09/29/2015
Adjusting Agile for Remote Environments
Bill Dickenson, Independent Consultant, Strategy On The Web In most commercial environments the developers are distributed — rarely occupying the same physical site and often on very different hours. Faced with this reality, AGILE struggles. In the 12 principles from the “Agile Manifesto” is the principle that “The most efficient... Read more →
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