TSP Executive Strategy Seminar
Watts Humphrey and Jim Over to Teach TSP Executive Strategy Seminar
Monday, June 9, 2008, 08.30–17.00
Watts Humphrey, winner of the U.S. National Medal of Technology—the highest honor awarded by the president of the United States to America's leading innovators—and Jim Over, team lead of the Team Software Process Initiative at the SEI, will jointly teach the TSP Executive Strategy Seminar on June 9. It is one of several special events scheduled to kick off the SEPG Europe Conference, which will be held June 10–13 in Munich, Germany.
This one-day seminar for software executives and middle managers covers the key concepts and principles of the Team Software Process (TSP) and Personal Software Process (PSP) from a management perspective. The purpose of the seminar 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. CMM and CMMI have helped organizations improve their management practices, but many groups still struggle when trying to apply disciplined methods to the software engineering work itself. 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 extend and complement CMMI by providing both a strategy and a set of operational procedures for 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 project teams, provides a formal team-building process, and provides the mechanism for tracking progress against project plans.
Both methods were originally conceived by Humphrey, a senior fellow at the SEI, and developed by the SEI's TSP Initiative to help teams and individuals incorporate CMMI principles and practices at all levels of their organizations.
The TSP Executive Strategy Seminar, which is scheduled for June 9, is open to the public and includes a fee in addition to the SEPG Europe registration. After registering for the seminar, attendees will receive a copy of Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy by Watts Humphrey as well as an accompanying letter detailing pre-course reading assignments. For more information, visit www.sei.cmu.edu/products/courses/tsp-exsem.html or email course-info@sei.cmu.edu.
Humphrey will also keynote the SEPG Europe Conference. For more information about his keynote address, or to read his complete bio, visit www.sei.cmu.edu/sepgeurope/2008/program_speakers.html.
