Staff Page for Watts S. Humphrey

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Job title

SEI Fellow

Administrative home

Software Engineering Process Management Program

Key responsibilities

Developing improved software quality, process, and measurement methods and transitioning these methods into general practice.

Teams

Team Software Process Team SEPM Leadership Team

Professional Background

Mr. Humphrey joined the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University after his retirement from IBM in 1986 where he was Director of Programming and Vice President of Technical Development. At the SEI, he established the Software Process Program, led development of the Software Capability Maturity Model, and introduced the Software Process Assessment and Software Capability Evaluation methods. Mr. Humphrey also led the development of the Personal Software Process^SM (PSP)^SM and the Team Software Process^SM (TSP)^SM. In 2005, at the White House, the President of the United States awarded Mr. Humphrey the National Medal of Technology. See: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/tsp

Publications (recent or significant)

TSP, Coaching Development Teams, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, April 14, 2006.
TSP, Leading a Development Team, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 2006.
PSP, A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA 2005.
Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA December 2001.
Managing Technical People - Innovation, Teamwork and Software Process, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1997.

Education

Honorary Doctor of Software Engineering, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University
Master of Business Administration, Univ. of Chicago
Master of Science, Physics, Illinois Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science, Physics, University of Chicago

Professional Memberships and Activities

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Empirical Software Engineering
Member Editorial Board Software Process Improvement and Pracitce
Member of the Industry Advisory Board, Computer and Software Engineering Department, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University

Contact Information

Electronic mail address: watts@sei.cmu.edu

Phone: 412-268-6379

Fax:(412) 268-5758

Room: 3302

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