The Team Software Process (TSP)^SM has been designed to help engineering teams more effectively develop software intensive products. TSP^SM has been used with pure software teams and with mixed teams of hardware and software engineers. TSP^SM has also been used for both new development and enhancement and with commercial and imbedded real-time systems. The languages used have included Java, C, Jovial, C++, and special 4GLs. TSP^SM can be used with teams of from 2 to 20 engineers developing or enhancing software-intensive systems. Its objective is to assist the engineers in producing quality products on their planned schedules and within their estimated costs.

This talk describes TSP's^SM objectives, the logic behind the TSP^SM process, and the relationships among the TSP^SM, PSP^SM, and CMM ^®. A growing number of organizations have used the TSPSM and this talk will describe the experiences of several of them and provide some data on their results. Finally, the talk briefly reviews the TSP^SM introduction strategy and some of the key issues involved in successfully introducing the TSP^SM.

Biography: Mr. Humphrey is currently an SEI Fellow at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University. He joined the SEI after his retirement from IBM in 1986. While at the SEI, he established the Process Program, led the initial development of the Capability Maturity ModelSM (CMM ^® ) framework for software for institutional growth, and introduced the concepts of Software Process Assessment and Software Capability Evaluation. The CMM ^® is now used by software organizations throughout the world to guide their process improvement work. It has become the standard used by the U.S. Department of Defense, the British Ministry of Defense, and many other government departments and industrial corporations to evaluate their own capabilities and those of their software suppliers. His most recent work is on the Personal Software Process^SM (PSP^SM) and the Team Software Process ^SM (TSP^SM).

Prior to joining the SEI, Mr. Humphrey spent 27 years with IBM in various technical executive positions including the management of all IBM commercial software development. This included the first 19 releases of OS/360. He was also IBMs Vice President of Technical Development, responsible for the system architecture and software development for the IBM System 370 product line. At one time, while he was IBM director of Policy Development, he was responsible for IBMs world-wide hardware and software contracts and competitive practices. Most recently, he was IBM's Director of Programming Quality and Process.

Mr. Humphrey holds graduate degrees in Physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and Business Administration from the University of Chicago. He is an SEI Fellow, a member of the ACM, an IEEE Fellow, and a past member of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Examiners. He was awarded the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Software Engineering Award for 1993, and the SEI Leadership Award in 1997. His publications include many technical papers and six books. His most recent books are: "Managing the Software Process" (1989), "A Discipline for Software Engineering" (1995), "Managing Technical People" (1996), and "Introduction to the Personal Software Process" (1997). He holds five US. Patents.

^SM Capability Maturity Model, Personal Software Process, PSP, Team Software Process, and TSP are service marks of Carnegie Mellon University.

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Coordinator: Leitha Purcell, Northrop Grumman Corporation, purcele@mail.northgrum.com,
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Date: Friday, January 29, 1999
Topic:  Discussion of the Software Development Capability Evaluation (SDCE)

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