As part of a more comprehensive course on software engineering with the above topics covered in more detail. Humphrey, a discipline for software engineering, addisonwesley, 1995 literature watts s. Introduction psp the personal software process psp is a selfimprovement process designed to help you control, manage, and improve the way you work. The personal software process psp was designed to provide both a strategy and a set of operational procedures for using disciplined software process methods at the individual and team levels. The personal software process psp is a selfimprovement process designed to help you control, manage, and improve the way you work.
The personal software process psp november 2000 technical report watts s. Personal software process psp application of cmm principles to individuals developed by watts humphrey of the software engineering institute sei in the early 1990s extensive supporting materials. A bibliography of the personal software process psp and the. The personal software process is about making individual engineers work to. The personal software process psp is a process and performance improvement method aimed at individual software engineers. The psp s sole purpose is to help you be a better software. Process improvement from the software engineering institute. The body of knowledge contained in this report is designed to complement the ieee computer societys software engineering body of knowledge swebok by delineating the key skills and concepts that compose the knowledge areas and competencies of a proveneffective process improvement method, the personal software process psp. Roy stpp, visiting scientist sei software engineering institute carnegie mellon university pittsburgh, pa 152 sponsored by the u.
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By doing the set of programming exercises and the corresponding process measurements the students are expected to detect and address the most important problems in their personal process, at the same. Starting with a brief discussion of the relationship of the psp to general quality principles, the report describes how the psp was developed, its principles, and its methods. Personal software process psp parts of this topic use material from the textbook w. Psp personal software process software improvement must begin at the individual level. In this model, project lifecycle activities are di. The software capability maturity model swcmm, cmmi especially cmmi v1. Even though several published studies have suggested that adopting. The personal software process psp has been developed by the software engineering. The personal software process psp is a structured software development process that is designed to help software engineers better understand and improve their performance by bringing discipline to the way they develop software and tracking their predicted and actual development of the code. Process model psp provides a welldefined framework to assist individuals in building a disciplined personal software process. Furthermore, the process data guides the improvement.
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Psp is a guide to using disciplined personal practices to do superior software engineering. It helps them in developing their respective skills at a personal level and the way of doing planning, estimations against the plans. Published studies have suggested that adopting the psp results in improved size and time estimation and in reduced numbers of defects found in the compile and test phases of. It is a structured framework of forms, guidelines, and procedures for developing software. Organizations that have implemented the psp have experienced significant improvements in the quality of their software systems and.
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