Transition Partnerships

SEI

ISD operates under several agreements with the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), in support of the SEI technology transition mission.

The Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is charged with advancing the state of the practice of software engineering to ensure the development and operation of systems with predictable and improved cost, schedule, and quality. To achieve this mission, the SEI strategically and openly engages a broad-based community to improve the effects of software in the world. The SEI creates usable technologies, applies them to real problems, and amplifies their impact by accelerating broad adoption. SEI Partners are integral to this process.

ITsqc

ISD has been selected an Authorized Organization by Carnegie Mellon University’s Information Technology Services Qualification Center (ITsqc). ISD’s authorization allows us to sponsor candidate individuals to become Authorized Evaluators and Authorized Lead Evaluators and to offer the full range of eSCM-SP Evaluation Services. The ITsqc competitively selects and trains evaluators on the basis of their competence, training, qualifications and experience; ISD currently deploys three Authorized Lead Evaluators and one Authorized Evaluator.

ITsqc creates capability models and qualification methods to improve sourcing relationships in the Internet-enabled economy. ITsqc developed the eSourcing Capability Model for Service Providers (eSCM-SP) v2 to help IT-enabled sourcing service providers appraise and improve their services and to assist prospective clients in evaluating service providers. ITsqc has begun related efforts to model best practices of IT-enabled sourcing clients – the eSourcing Capability Model for Clients (eSCM-CL), to explore the need for capability and appraisal methods for eSecurity, and to develop an initial framework for the eCommerce Capability Model (eCCM).