+SAFE, V1.2: A Safety Extension to CMMI-DEV, V1.2

+SAFE, V1.2: A Safety Extension to CMMI-DEV, V1.2

A Personal Quality Strategy

A Personal Quality Strategy

A Practical Approach to Improving Pilots

A Practical Approach to Improving Pilots

A Process Research Framework

The SEI's International Process Research Consortium (IPRC) brings together 27 leaders from academia and industry to study the implications of both plausible future scenarios and existing process research.

A Report on the May 2002 CMMI Workshop

This report summarizes the results of the CMMI Workshop held May 7-8, 2002.

A Specification for Software Project Performance Measures

A Specification for Software Project Performance Measures

A Superior Process: Requirements

This presentation from Watts Humphrey provides information about the benefits of process improvement, as well as examples of organizations that could have used process improvement effectively.

Advanced Engineering Environments for Small Manufacturing Enterprises: Volume II

Advanced Engineering Environments for Small Manufacturing Enterprises: Volume II

Basic Principles and Concepts for Achieving Quality

Basic Principles and Concepts for Achieving Quality

Being Your Own Boss—Part I: The Ideal Job

Being Your Own Boss—Part I: The Ideal Job

Being Your Own Boss—Part II: The Autocratic Manager

Being Your Own Boss—Part II: The Autocratic Manager

Being Your Own Boss—Part III: Knowledge Work

Being Your Own Boss—Part III: Knowledge Work

Being Your Own Boss—Part IV: Being a Victim

Being Your Own Boss—Part IV: Being a Victim

Being Your Own Boss—Part V: Building Trust

Being Your Own Boss—Part V: Building Trust

Bugs or Defects?

Bugs or Defects?

Building Process Improvement Business Cases Using Bayesian Belief Networks and Monte Carlo Simulation

Many organizations require quality improvement initiatives to be based on quantified business cases. This leads some organizations to start measurement programs to collect data about current performance—a lengthy and expensive process that requires a strong commitment from management. This report describes a collaboration between the Software Engineering Institute and Ericsson Research and Development, The Netherlands, to build a business case using high maturity measurement approaches that require limited measurement effort.

CMM in Practice: Processes for Executing Software Projects at Infosys

The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is a widely adopted set of guidelines for evaluating and improving an organization's software development processes. The CMM is a general framework, however, and provides no specific guidance for implementation; instead, each organization must relate CMM characteristics to its own processes. As a consequence, the need has emerged for comprehensive accounts of successful CMM implementations, as well as for detailed descriptions of how software projects are executed in those cases. Such real-world examples can serve as a valuable resource for managers and developers responsible for setting up the CMM and carrying out their own projects.

CMM in Practice comprises such a resource. Examining the various stages in the life cycle of a typical software project at Infosys Technologies, the book describes the technical and management processes used to initiate, plan, and execute the project. To enhance the discussion, an actual Infosys project is used as a running example throughout the book.

CMMI for Services: Guidelines for Superior Service

CMMI for Services (CMMI-SVC) is a comprehensive set of guidelines to help organizations establish and improve processes for delivering services. This book comprises an introduction to the CMMI-SVC model and an authoritative reference for it.

Can You Trust Your Data? Establishing the Need for a Measurement and Analysis Infrastructure Diagnostic

This report describes common errors in measurement and analysis and the need for a criterion-based assessment method that will allow organizations to evaluate key characteristics of their measurement programs.

Comparing Insider IT Sabotage and Espionage: A Model-Based Analysis

Comparing Insider IT Sabotage and Espionage: A Model-Based Analysis

Competing in the Software Age

A presentation by Watts Humphrey

Data Analysis Dynamics

Presented: February 2003

Debugging the Healthcare System

Debugging the Healthcare System by Dan S. Drawbaugh, CIO, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC)

Defective Software Works

Defective Software Works

Delivering on the Promise of Process Improvement

Delivering on the Promise of Process Improvement

DoD Software Measurement Pilot: Applying the SEI Core Measures, A

DoD Software Measurement Pilot: Applying the SEI Core Measures, A

Doing Disciplined Work

Doing Disciplined Work

Eight Key Factors for Successful

Eight Key Factors for Successful

Experiences in Implementing Measurement Programs

Experiences in Implementing Measurement Programs

Getting Management Support for Process Improvement

Getting Management Support for Process Improvement

How Mexico is Doing It

How Mexico is Doing It

Human Aspects of Software Engineering

The book is written for software engineering students and professional software developers, and addresses topics such as teamwork, customer - software-engineer relationships, and learning processes in software development.

Illuminating Patterns of Perception: An Overview of Q Methodology

Illuminating Patterns of Perception: An Overview of Q Methodology

Integrated Approach to Software Process Improvement at Wipro Technologies: veloci-Q, An

Integrated Approach to Software Process Improvement at Wipro Technologies: veloci-Q, An

Interpreting SCAMPI for a People CMM Appraisal at Tata Consultancy Services

Interpreting SCAMPI for a People CMM Appraisal at Tata Consultancy Services

Introduction: Checking In on a Process Improvement Revolution

Introduction: Checking In on a Process Improvement Revolution

Justifying a Process Improvement Proposal

Justifying a Process Improvement Proposal

Large-Scale Creative Work

Keynote Speech by Watts S. Humphrey. SEPG 2005

Large-Scale Work – Part VII: Process Discipline

Large-Scale Work – Part VII: Process Discipline

Large-Scale Work—Part I: The Organization

Large-Scale Work—Part I: The Organization

Large-Scale Work—Part II: The Project

Large-Scale Work—Part II: The Project

Large-Scale Work—Part III: The People

Large-Scale Work—Part III: The People

Large-Scale Work–Part IV: The Management System

Large-Scale Work–Part IV: The Management System

Large-Scale Work–Part V: Building Team Ownership

Large-Scale Work–Part V: Building Team Ownership

Large-Scale Work–Part VI: The Process

Large-Scale Work–Part VI: The Process

Learning from Hardware: Design and Quality

Learning from Hardware: Design and Quality

Learning from Hardware: Planning

Learning from Hardware: Planning

Making the Strategic Case for Process Improvement

Making the Strategic Case for Process Improvement

Making the Tactical Case for Process Improvement

Making the Tactical Case for Process Improvement

Managing Technical People: Innovation, Teamwork, and the Software Process

Drawing on the author's extensive experience as a senior manager of software development at IBM, this book describes proven techniques for managing technical professionals.

Managing the Software Process

This landmark book introduces the author's methods, now commonly practiced in industry, for improving software development and maintenance processes.

Measurement and Analysis: What Can and Does Go Wrong?

Measurement and Analysis: What Can and Does Go Wrong?

Moving the Goal Posts

Moving the Goal Posts

News at SEI December 1999

News at SEI December 1999

Organizational Considerations for the Estimating Process

Presented: November 2004

PROxy Based Estimation (PROBE) for Structured Query Language (SQL)

PROxy Based Estimation (PROBE) for Structured Query Language (SQL)

People Capability Maturity Model (P-CMM), Version 2.0, Second Edition

This is the second edition of the People Capability Maturity Model, Version 2.0. It is also available as a book in the SEI Series from Addison-Wesley.

Performance Improvement: It’s a Small World After All

Performance Improvement: It’s a Small World After All

Personal Software Process (PSP) Body of Knowledge, Version 1.0, The

Personal Software Process (PSP) Body of Knowledge, Version 1.0, The

Principles of CASE Tool Integration

Principles of CASE Tool Integration describes a set of concepts, models, and guidelines for understanding CASE (computer-aided software engineering) tool integration and provides in-depth analysis of the CASE tool integration problem.

Proceedings of the First International Research Workshop for Process Improvement in Small Settings, 2005

Proceedings of the First International Research Workshop for Process Improvement in Small Settings, 2005

Process Improvement in Multi-Model Environments  (PrIME)

In this presentation, currently available strategic and tactical methods for multi-model improvement are presented.

Pursue Better Software, Not Absolution for Defective Products

Pursue Better Software, Not Absolution for Defective Products

QuARS: A Tool for Analyzing Requirement

QuARS: A Tool for Analyzing Requirement

SCAMPI Lead Appraiser Body of Knowledge (SLA BOK)

SCAMPI Lead Appraiser Body of Knowledge (SLA BOK)

SEI and NAWC: Working Together to Establish a Software Measurement Program, The

The SEI and NAWC: Working Together to Establish a Software Measurement Program

Secure Software Development Life Cycle Processes: A Technology Scouting Report

Secure Software Development Life Cycle Processes: A Technology Scouting Report

Security Changes Everything

Security Changes Everything

Social Security Administration Reaps Rewards of Process Improvement

Social Security Administration Reaps Rewards of Process Improvement

Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis

Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis

Software Process Improvement Journey: IBM Australia Application Management Services

Software Process Improvement Journey: IBM Australia Application Management Services

Software Process Improvement: Practical Guidelines for Business Success

This book will help you manage and control the quality of your organization's software products by showing you how to develop a preventive culture of disciplined and continuous process improvement.

Software Strategy for Technology Collaborations

Software Strategy for Technology Collaborations

Some Programming Principles—Requirements

Some Programming Principles—Requirements

Some Programming Principles: People

Some Programming Principles: People

Some Programming Principles: Products

Some Programming Principles: Products

Some Programming Principles: Projects

Some Programming Principles: Projects

Spider-Man 3 Developers to Discuss Process-Improvement Experience in SEPG Keynote

Spider-Man 3 Developers to Discuss Process-Improvement Experience in SEPG Keynote

Surviving Failure

Surviving Failure

Systems Engineering Complexity & Project Management

presented at the CMMI Technology Conference, November 2007

Systems of Systems: Scaling Up the Development Process

Systems of Systems: Scaling Up the Development Process

TSP: Coaching Development Teams

Most modern software development projects require teams, and good teamwork largely determines a project’s success. The Team Software Process (TSP), created by Watts S. Humphrey, is a set of engineering practices and team concepts that produce effective teams, thereby helping developers deliver high-quality products on time and within budget. TSP bridges Humphrey’s seminal work on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), an improvement framework for the entire software organization, and his Personal Software Process (PSP), practices designed to improve the work of individual developers.

The Blue Angels - Ocean Systems Engineering Corporation

The Blue Angels - Ocean Systems Engineering Corporation

The Future of Software Engineering: I

The Future of Software Engineering: I

The Future of Software Engineering: II

The Future of Software Engineering: II

The Future of Software Engineering: III

The Future of Software Engineering: III

The Future of Software Engineering: IV

The Future of Software Engineering: IV

The Future of Software Engineering: V

The Future of Software Engineering: V

The Internal Consistency of Key Process Areas in the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for Software (SW-CMM)

The Internal Consistency of Key Process Areas in the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for Software (SW-CMM)

The Many Aspects of Service Oriented Computing

Presented at SEPG 2006 by Stuart Feldman, Vice President, Computer Science, IBM Research

The People CMM: A Framework for Human Capital Management, 2nd Edition

The book is aimed at people responsible for developing and implementing human capital strategies and plans in their organizations, managing or developing the workforce, implementing advanced workforce practices, nurturing teams, and transforming organizational culture. It is especially useful for businesses undergoing critical organizational changes.

The Personal Software Process (PSP) Body of Knowledge, Version 2.0

The Personal Software Process (PSP) body of knowledge (BOK) contained in this report provides guidance to software professionals who are interested in using proven-effective, disciplined methods to improve their personal software development process.

The Quality Attitude

The Quality Attitude

The Role of Visioning and Passion for Excellence in Software Development

Keynote speech at SEPG 2005 gy Miles Lewitt, Vice President, Intuit Corporation

The Watts New? Collection: Columns by the SEI's Watts Humphrey

The Watts New? Collection: Columns by the SEI's Watts Humphrey

Use and Organizational Effects of Measurement and Analysis in High Maturity Organizations: Results from the 2008 SEI State of Measurement and Analysis Practice Surveys

This report contains results from a survey of high maturity organizations conducted by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in 2008. The questions center on the use of process performance modeling in those organizations and the value added by that use.

Video About the SEPG Conference

Video about the SEPG Conference

Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy

Based on his own extensive management experience, Watts S. Humphrey, the world-renowned expert on process improvement, shows corporate executives and senior managers how to gain control of a software operation and how to transform that operation into a professional and businesslike engineering function.

Writing the Book on Process Improvement: An Interview with Watts Humphrey

Writing the Book on Process Improvement: An Interview with Watts Humphrey

Your Date or Mine?

Your Date or Mine?