[4][5][6] In 2007 he was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his contributions to software process improvement and measurement.
He 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.
[1][2] and the People CMM [3] In 1993 he returned to Austin and co-founded TeraQuest Metrics, which provided CMM-based improvement services globally.
[2] Throughout the 1990s he promoted the CMM to companies and government agencies in the U.S, E.U., and Asia, contributing to its global adoption as a method for guiding process improvement and for evaluating the capability of software organizations.
The People CMM stages the implementation of increasingly sophisticated human capital management practices across the five levels of organizational maturity proposed by Humphrey.
The BPMM includes several new innovations in maturity models based on a decade of experience in applying them to guide process improvement programs.
Dr. 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.
[18][19] In 2009 Dr. Curtis became the founding Director of the Consortium for IT Software Quality (CISQ) that was created with joint sponsorship from the SEI and OMG.
CISQ's primary objective has been to create standards for measuring the size and quality attributes of software at the code level.
[20] CISQ has also released a standard for computing automated measures of software reliability, performance efficiency, security, and quality.