Consulting: How the SEI Can Help Introduce TSP & PSP into Your Organization
The Challenge
Changing the personal work habits of your engineers is not an easy task. Drawing on the SEI or an SEI partner for support during the transition to PSP makes this job easier. Everyone–executives, managers, engineers–is trained in the skills they need to be successful. Then you get the tools for your organization to take over training and support for your staff.
Benefits of SEI Support
- Improvements in product quality
- Reductions in product testing and overall cycle time
- Improved planning
- Expertise during initial training and pilot projects
- Evaluation of your experience during the introduction
The SEI Strategy
The introduction strategy is consistent with the SEI's CMMI and the IDEAL model applied to organizational process improvement. Briefly, the strategy is to conduct two to four pilot projects with TSP, gain experience with it, show early results, then expand it to an organization in a measured way. The strategy involves the following steps:
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Conducting an executive training/kickoff session (see TSP Executive Strategy Seminar).
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Working with your organization to define an approach, identify staff members and teams that will participate, choose pilot projects, and develop a schedule.
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Training managers (Leading a Development Team), engineers (PSP for Engineers I and II), and support staff (Introduction to Personal Process) on the pilot projects, and one or more PSP instructors. We work with you to integrate PSP and TSP into your organization's engineering processes.
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Two to four pilot project teams implement PSP using the TSP framework, with our support.
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Based on the results of the pilots, and with our support, your organization develops a plan to transition PSP and TSP to other teams and projects.
The Timeline
The sample timeline below indicates how these five steps might be scheduled within an organization.
