Software engineer and development of the Capability Maturity Model
Bill Curtis (born 1948) 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. 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.
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