Bill Curtis was born on 1948 and is a software engineer best known for leading the development of the Capability Maturity Model and the People CMM in the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and for championing the spread of software process improvement and software measurement globally.
18 Facts About Bill Curtis
1.
2.
Bill Curtis was named to the 2022 class of ACM Fellows, "for contributions to software process, software measurement, and human factors in software engineering".
3.
Bill Curtis graduated from the Fort Worth Country Day School in 1967 where the Bill Curtis Award is given annually to the undergraduate boy whose performance contributes the most to the athletic program.
4.
Bill Curtis has published 4 books, over 150 articles, and has been on the editorial board of 7 academic journals.
5.
Bill Curtis started his career as a Research Assistant Professor in the Organizational Research Group at the University of Washington where he taught statistics in the Department of Psychology and performed research on programmer skills, leadership, and sports psychology.
6.
Bill Curtis entered software engineering in 1978 as the Manager of Software Management Research at Information System Programs in General Electric's Space Division in Arlington, Virginia, where he led research on software metrics and programming practices.
7.
Bill Curtis is currently the Director of the Consortium for IT Software Quality, an IT industry leadership group founded by the SEI and OMG.
8.
Dr Curtis initiated the project to create the Capability Maturity Model in 1991 after he had been selected to succeed Watts Humphrey as the Director of the Software Engineering Institute's Software Process Program.
9.
Dr Bill Curtis recognized that Humphrey's Process Maturity Framework was a unique model of organizational development that challenged conventional wisdom on how to conduct organizational improvement programs and could be applied to organizational processes far beyond software development.
10.
Dr Bill Curtis led a team at General Electric Space Division that was the first to prove experimentally that software metrics could be used to predict programmer performance and quality.
11.
Bill Curtis's group provided early leadership in studying programming practices experimentally.
12.
Bill Curtis next developed a global software productivity and quality measurement system while at ITT's Programming Technology Center which allowed established corporate baselines across different business lines in one of the world's largest corporate conglomerates.
13.
Bill Curtis has promoted the use of advanced statistic methods in managing software productivity and quality.
14.
In 2009 Dr Bill Curtis became the founding Director of the Consortium for IT Software Quality that was created with joint sponsorship from the SEI and OMG.
15.
Bill Curtis has been an advocate for studying the psychological and behavioral processes of software development.
16.
Dr Bill Curtis led the creation of MCC's Human Interface Laboratory that focused on creating tools for designing advanced user interfaces that integrated artificial intelligence with multi-media technology.
17.
Bill Curtis was program Chair for CHI'85 and General Chair for CHI'89.
18.
Bill Curtis was an advocate for making user interface design an engineering design discipline and for more sensible approaches to protecting the intellectual property in user interfaces.