Software Guru: His impact on the Software Process

Paper Presentation Software Guru: His impacts on the Software Process Sonali Parthasarathy ENGL 101

Software Engineering
establishment
use of sound engineering principles
economically
reliable and efficient
Definition:

Biography
Founded the Software process Program at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI)
Between 1959-1986 he worked at IBM Corporation as the Director of Programming
Introduced Personal Software Process (PSP) in 1994
Was Awarded the prestigious 2003 National Medal of Technology for his contributions to the software engineering community.

History
Software Engineering Institute
Capability Maturity Model
Personal Software Process

Need for PSP - Improve the practices of Engineers - chicken-and-egg problem Solution - PSP to the rescue! What’s next?

What does PSP hope to achieve?
Manage the quality of their projects.
Make commitments they can meet
Improve estimating and planning
Reduce defects in their products

Sample project of Advanced Information Systems Schedule estimation error Ferguson, Pat et al. “Results of Applying the Personal Software Process.” Computer . 30.5 (1997): 24-31.

Review
Software Engineering
Dr. Watts Humphrey
Need For PSP
What does PSP hope to achieve
Case Study

Software Guru: His impact on the Software Process

by sonali on Jun 20, 2007

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