By Bill Ferrarini, Senior Quality Assurance Analyst at SunGard Public Sector, and CISQ Member Quality is more than just a word, it’s a passion of mine. In 1974 I was fortunate enough to experience Quality Circles. It was definitely that moment, when you realize that you can make a difference... Read more →

By Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) Hello Seminar Attendees and CISQ Members, Last week we met in Austin, Texas for a CISQ Seminar: Measuring and Managing Software Risk, Security, and Technical Debt. Presentations are posted to the CISQ website under “Event & Seminar Presentations.” Login.... Read more →

By Bill Ferrarini, Senior Quality Assurance Analyst at SunGard Public Sector, and CISQ Member Most companies will use these terms interchangeably, but the truth is Quality Assurance is a preventative method while Quality Control is an Identifier. Don’t go shooting the messenger on this one, I know that each and... Read more →

Author: Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, CISQ Last week a hacker known as “w0rm” attacked the Wall St. Journal website. W0rm is a hacker (or group of hackers) known to infiltrate news websites, post screenshots on Twitter as evidence, and solicit the sale of database information and credentials. Information stolen from... Read more →

By Tracie Berardi, Program Manager, Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) In case you didn’t catch this interview with Anders Wallgren, CTO of Electric Cloud, I’m circulating it here. On August 8, 2014 Anders was interviewed by StickyMinds editor, Cameron Philipp-Edmonds about the recent Honda recall and lessons learned (and... Read more →

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 →