Standards: Code Quality driven by a Consortium (CISQ)?

Interesting consortium joining SEI (that developed the CMMI model) and OMG (UML and some related standards):

"Consortium of IT Software Quality (CISQ). CISQ brings together industry executives from Global 2000 IT organizations, system integrators, outsourcers, and package vendors to jointly address the challenge of standardizing the measurement of IT software quality and to promote a market-based ecosystem to support its deployments.
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Jointly organized by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University and the Object Management Group (OMG), CISQ is designed to be a neutral forum in which customers and suppliers of IT application software can develop an industry-wide agenda of actions for defining, measuring, and improving IT software quality."

Source: Wikipedia

Additional info:
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/newsitems/cisq.cfm
http://www.eweek.com/development/software-quality-has-a-new-name-cisq

3 articles involving NASA and NASA-SEL (software engineeering & process improvement)

3 interesting articles on NASA and the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory (NASA-SEL). Final links are 2 clicks away (sorry I am grouping this info here):

1. Rise and fall of the NASA-SEL (about process improvement and some pitfalls during the implementation): http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/08/ieee-xplore-abstract-lessons-learned.html
2. The code of the Apollo 11 mission (man on the moon mission) was retyped, filled in and published on Github (!): http://everything-techie-under-the-sun.blogspot.pt/2016/07/the-code-that-took-america-to-moon-was.html (this one explains the BURN BABY BURN routine and much more).
3. And some history on the alarms it raised during the mission: http://silvaonsoftware.blogspot.pt/2016/08/apollo-11-lunar-surface-journal-program.html
4. A video of the emulator working: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyhI85Rd1kI

Updated: 2018-04-03, emulator video.

IEEE Xplore Abstract - Lessons learned from 25 years of process improvement: the rise and fall of the NASA-SEL

Interesting article on NASA Software Engineering Laboratory (NASA-SEL):

IEEE Xplore Abstract - Lessons learned from 25 years of process improvement: the rise and fall of the NASA software enginee...

Abstract:

"Lessons learned from 25 years of process improvement: The Rise and Fall of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory. For 25 years the NASA/GSFC Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) has been a major resource in software process improvement activities. But due to a changing climate at NASA, agency reorganization, and budget cuts, the SEL has lost much of its impact. In this paper we describe the history of the SEL and give some lessons learned on what we did right, what we did wrong, and what others can learn from our experiences. We briefly describe the research that was conducted by the SEL, describe how we evolved our understanding of software process improvement, and provide a set of lessons learned and hypotheses that should enable future groups to learn from and improve on our quarter century of experiences."

PDF: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~basili/publications/proceedings/P94.pdf