Curtis Gives Keynote on Technical Debt at Construx
Posted By Jonathan Bloom on October 24, 2011 | CAST News, Industry News
The Construx Software Executive Summit, which opens today in Seattle, WA, provides a forum for top executives to compare, evaluate and improve their Software Development experiences and strategies at the enterprise level. Keynoting this year’s summit will be CAST’s chief scientist, Dr. Bill Curtis, who will present on the topic, “How Governing Code Quality Reduces Business Cost and Risk.”
Curtis’ keynote will focus on how addressing structural quality of application software during pre-production mitigates, and in many cases eliminates, the risk of software malfunctions and outages after deployment, which also significantly reduces a company’s technical debt. He will explain how companies can work with legacy systems to achieve optimal structural quality of application software and thereby reduce their technical debt.
In addition to Curtis, other IT industry notables presenting at Construx include: Steve McConnell, Tom Gilb, James Whittaker, Philippe Kruchten and Ward Cunningham.
Curtis is an industry luminary who is responsible for influencing CAST’s scientific and strategic direction, as well as helping CAST educate the IT market about the importance of managing and measuring the quality of its software. He is best known for leading development of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), which has become the global standard for evaluating the capability of software development organizations.
Recently elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to software process improvement and measurement, Curtis is the director and co-founder of CISQ, an IT industry leadership group comprised of IT executives from the Global 2000, system integrators, outsourced service providers and software technology vendors all of whom are committed to introducing a computable metrics standard for measuring software quality.
Tags: Application Quality, automated analysis and measurement, bill curtis, CAST, software analysis, Software Development, software measurement, Software Quality Metrics, structural quality, Technical debt
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Posted by Jonathan Bloom
Jonathan is an experienced writer with over 17 years in the technology industry. Jon has written more than 500 journal and magazine articles and other materials that have been published throughout the U.S. and Canada. He has expertise in a wide-range of subjects within the IT industry including software development, enterprise software, mobile, database, security, BI, SaaS/Cloud, Health Care IT and Sustainable Technology. Jon holds a B.A. in History from Gettysburg College. He enjoys attending sporting events, cooking, studying American history and listening to Bruce Springsteen music.