Dr. Watts Humphrey was a pioneer in software engineering who founded the Software Process Program and introduced the Personal Software Process (PSP). PSP aims to help individual software engineers improve their practices by better managing project quality, making commitments they can meet, improving estimating and planning, and reducing defects. A case study on PSP at Advanced Information Systems found it reduced schedule estimation errors.

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

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

3. 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.

4. History Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model Personal Software Process

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

6. 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

7. 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.

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