TSP Executive Strategy Seminar

Dates

2008* Prices (USD)

2008 Dates
June 9, 2008 (Munich, Germany)
October 21, 2008 (SEI Pittsburgh, PA)

Course Registration
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
Phone: 412 / 268-7388
FAX: 412 / 268-7401
Questions: courseregistration@sei.cmu.edu

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This course may also be offered by arrangement at customer sites. E-mail course-info@sei.cmu.edu or call +1 412-268-7622 for details.

*Course dates and fees are subject to change.

U.S.
Course Fee:
Industry: $500
Government: $400
Academic: $400

International
Course Fee:
$1000

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Course Description

This one-day introductory course for software executives and middle managers covers the key concepts and principles of the Team Software Process^SM (TSP^SM) and Personal Software Process^SM (PSP^SM) from a management perspective. The purpose of the course is to provide the foundation that managers need to begin to introduce and apply the TSP in their organization.

Organizations that develop software recognize that controlling their software process significantly affects their ability to be successful in business. However, organizations still struggle when trying to apply disciplined methods in the software process. Historically, this struggle has been due to a lack of operational procedures that teams and individuals can use to develop software in a disciplined fashion.

The TSP was designed to provide both a strategy and a set of operational procedures using disciplined software process methods at the individual and team levels. At the individual level, the PSP shows managers and engineers how and why to plan and track their projects, demonstrates the principles and benefits of effective quality management, and involves the engineers in process measurement, management, and improvement. At the team level, the TSP builds accurate, achievable plans for software projects teams, provides a formal team-building process, and provides the mechanism for tracking progress against project plans.

Audience   ·    Prerequisites    ·    Objectives   ·    Logistics

AUDIENCE

• executives and middle managers who are responsible for software development or maintenance
• managers who are responsible for software support areas such as software quality assurance, software engineering process groups, systems or hardware engineering, documentation, or finance

PREREQUISITES
There are no prerequisites for this course.

TOPICS

• a strategic perspective of the software business, its problems and possible solutions to those problems
• an overview of the PSP and how it provides a means for introducing sound engineering practices into software engineering work
• an overview of the TSP and how it works to build self-directed, high-performance teams
• rational management (managing with facts and data) and why this type of management is required to maintain successful TSP teams
• quality during software development, how TSP teams manage development quality and produce quality products
• introducing TSP into an organization

OBJECTIVES
This course helps participants to

• describe the basic concepts on which the TSP is built
• describe how the TSP can effectively improve software development activities and provide positive motivation for engineers and project teams
• show how to use the TSP to address current and future software needs
• describe how to successfully introduce and maintain TSP
• show what management must do to help their teams be successful

Course Work
After registering for the TSP Executive Strategy Seminar, attendees receive a copy of the book Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy by Watts S. Humphrey (ISBN 0-201-77639-1). An accompanying letter details the pre-course reading assignments. It is important that the assigned chapters are read before coming to the course.

Course Materials
Students are given a course notebook during the course.

LOGISTICS

Class Schedule
This one-day course meets from 8:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Hotel and Travel Information
Information about traveling to the SEI offices is available on our
Travel and Lodging Web pages.

Questions about this course?
Please see our Frequently Asked Questions Web page for answers to some of the more common inquiries about SEI Education and Training.

If you need more information, contact us via e-mail at course-info@sei.cmu.edu or telephone at +1 412-268-7622.

Related Products and Services

Courses
Introduction to Personal Process
PSP for Engineers
PSP Instructor Training
Leading a Development Team
TSP Coach Training

Publications
Humphrey, Watts S. Winning With Software: An Executive Strategy. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2001 (ISBN: 0-201-77639-1).

Humphrey, Watts S. Introduction to the Team Software Process. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 2000 (ISBN: 0-201-47719-X).

Humphrey, Watts S. Introduction to the Personal Software Process. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1997 (ISBN: 0-201-54809-7).

Humphrey, Watts S. A Discipline for Software Engineering. Boston, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1995 (ISBN: 0-201-54610-8).

Events
PSP and TSP faculty workshops

Team Software Process Symposium

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