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Damico Nicome

Damico Nicome

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Damico S. Nicome is Executive Director and Practice Head with over fifteen years of experience in Software Quality Assurance. He has developed complex QA solutions for various fortune 500 companies in the Financial and Insurance industries including The New York Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Mass Mutual and Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

Damico received his B.S. in Information Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY where he received numerous academic awards and his M.S. in Systems Management from New York University where he conducted research on QA organizational design and its effect on measuring software quality. His research involved an in-depth study of the ISO9126 software quality model, associated metrics, and organizational design.
 

Company
QSoft Consulting, LL
Industry
Business Services - Consulting - Non-profit
Interests
Business Analysis
Configuration Management
Defect or Incident Management
Design and Architecture
Development
Measurement and Estimating
Process Improvement
Requirements
Reviews and Inspections
Security Testing
Software Testing
Country
United States
Damico Nicome

Damico S. Nicome is Executive Director and Practice Head with over fifteen years of experience in Software Quality Assurance. He has developed complex QA solutions for various fortune 500 companies in the Financial and Insurance industries including The New York Stock Exchange, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, Mass Mutual and Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

Damico received his B.S. in Information Systems from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY where he received numerous academic awards and his M.S. in Systems Management from New York University where he conducted research on QA organizational design and its effect on measuring software quality. His research involved an in-depth study of the ISO9126 software quality model, associated metrics, and organizational design.
 

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The New Era of Software Quality Assurance

An effective Quality Assurance (QA) organization must have ARMS (the organization's ability to perform certain measurement Activities, understand the activity's Relevance to the software quality model, know the type of Metrics to collect, and create Synergy with adjacent organizations). This thesis focuses on the difficulty in obtaining measurement and explores whether or not QA organizational design can make it easier to measure certain characteristics of software quality.