October 20, 2015
Needham, MA — The Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) announced today that Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH) is joining the Consortium as a Silver sponsor. Booz Allen Hamilton provides management, technology consulting and engineering services to leading Fortune 500 corporations, governments, and not-for-profits across the globe. The firm is the sixth major sponsor to join CISQ’s roster of supporters that are advancing the adoption of software quality standards in the IT industry.
Over the next year, Booz Allen Hamilton will contribute to new CISQ software quality specifications, including Automated Enhancement Function Points, which is a measure of software size to be used in the analysis of maintenance activities and productivity; Technical Debt, which is a measure of software cost, effort and risk due to defects remaining in code at release; and Quality-Adjusted Productivity, which is a measure of development t productivity that takes into account the quality of software produced.
In addition to software quality standards, Booz Allen Hamilton will be among the first organizations to pilot the CISQ conformance assessment program which is under development for certifying the structural quality of software according to CISQ measures.
Dan Tucker, a principal at Booz Allen and leader in the firm’s Systems Delivery Group noted, “Booz Allen has invested in continuous, annual improvement for our systems delivery business for over 15 years to ensure we’re delivering the highest quality solutions to our clients. As an extension of this commitment, we enthusiastically embrace any efforts to more uniformly define software quality metrics across industry. We look forward to partnering with CISQ on this initiative.”
Booz Allen and CISQ co-sponsor CAST Software recently developed a joint paper on software quality for systems delivery.
“Booz Allen Hamilton has been at the forefront of strategy and technology consulting for more than 100 years, so we are very excited they are joining CISQ as a sponsor,” said Dr. Bill Curtis, Executive Director, CISQ. “Their expertise assisting our nation’s defense and civilian agencies, especially in the area of IT acquisition, will make an immediate impact as we develop CISQ “acquisition-ready” software quality specifications to manage IT risk and cybersecurity in the Federal Government. Booz Allen Hamilton will also be instrumental in helping CISQ determine industry benchmarks for software quality. ”
For more information about CISQ sponsorship, please visit: http://it-cisq.org/become-a-sponsor/.
