Bill Dickenson, Independent Consultant, Strategy On The Web Expectation Management DevOps brings both the developers and operations processes into alignment. This blog focuses on what operations should expect from the developers while my next blog will focus on what developers should expect from Operations. Managing both sides is essential to...... Read more →

Bill Dickenson, Independent Consultant, Strategy On The Web Dr. Richard Soley, the Chariman and CEO of OMG, published a paper for CISQ titled, How to Deliver Resilient, Secure, Efficient, and Easily Changed IT Systems in Line with CISQ Recommendations, that outlines the software quality standard for IT business applications. The..... Read more →

Bill Dickenson, Independent Consultant, Strategy On The Web Dr. Richard Soley, the Chariman and CEO of OMG, published a paper for CISQ titled, How to Deliver Resilient, Secure, Efficient, and Easily Changed IT Systems in Line with CISQ Recommendations, that outlines the software quality standard for IT business applications. He..... Read more →

Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) Rob Marvin published an article in the January issue of SD Times that details the work of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ). Rob interviewed Dr. Richard Soley, CEO of the Object Management Group (OMG) and Dr. Bill Curtis,...... Read more →

By Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) In January 2013 CISQ published a specification for Automated Function Points (AFP) that enables the automated sizing of software by function points. The spec was developed by an international team led by David Herron of the David Consulting Group... Read more →

By Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) Chris Kohlhepp proposed the Law of Tangental Complexity in an article he wrote on the complexity of large scale systems. He explains: To successful systems we add functionality, inter-dependencies, and layers of abstraction. Pressures exist to continue adding value... Read more →

By David Gelperin, CTO, ClearSpecs Enterprises Bob, the developer, is excited. This is his first assignment with his new employer and he really wants to show them what he can do. They are asking him to develop a “make a hotel reservation” function and he is listening carefully to understand... Read more →

By David Gelperin, CTO, ClearSpecs Enterprises 40-60% of larger projects fail. Fewer smaller projects fail. Therefore, do smaller projects. It’s safer to do projects you have done successfully before, e.g., build another ecommerce website. Therefore, repeat successful projects. If you must do something larger and unfamiliar, identify its hazards and.... Read more →

By David Gelperin, CTO, ClearSpecs Enterprises Seeking sites to refine and use a hybrid Agile process containing two phases. The second phase is “pure” Agile development and focuses on user functions. The first phase (Quality-First) identifies and manages quality goals such as reliability, understandability, or response time, which matter to... Read more →

Author: Tracie Berardi CISQ hosted its latest Seminar at the HYATT Reston Town Center in Reston, VA, USA. The topic for this installment was “Software Quality in Federal Acquisitions”, and included the following speakers: David Herron, David Consulting Group Robert Martin, Project Lead, Common Weakness Enumeration, MITRE Corp. John Keane... Read more →