TSP Symposium 2013 Presentations

This file contains sessions and presentations from the Eighth Annual TSP Symposium on September 17-19, 2013 in Dallas, Texas.

Sessions and presentations included:

*TSP Symposium 2013 Proceedings
*9 Digit Stakes and the Measurement Stack (Keynote), Bill Curtis
*Cadence Quality Initiative: Delivering Software That Works, Tom Beckley, Al Schmidt, and Elias Fallon
*Coaching a Winning Team, Dan Wall
*Demonstrating the Impact of the PSP on Software Quality and Effort: Eliminating the Programming Learning Effect, Diego Vallespir
*Grassroots Implementation of PSP, Jason Brady
*"Hi-Mat" Units: An Innovative TSP-Adoption Programme in South Africa, Barry Dwolatzky
*How to Successfully Launch Projects with Multi-Functional Silos, Bradley Zabinski
*Improving Introductory TSP for Creating High-Performance Student Teams, Masanobu Umeda, Keiichi Katamine, Masaaki Hashimoto, and Yoshihiro Akiyama
*Integrating TSP Data with External Systems: Challenges and Opportunities, David Tuma and Elias Fallon
*Lessons Learned in Seven Years of Teaching PSP to University Students, Rafael Salazar 
*MoNeT: A Software Initiative to Boost the Mexican Securities Market (Keynote), Enrique Ibarra
*Neuroscience, Zen, and the Art of Coaching for Habitual Excellence, Marsha Pomeroy-Huff
*Success with the TSP: Improve Your Project Estimations with Statistical Analysis Tools, Michael Mowle and Kathy Krauskopf
*The Exceptional Change Agent: Increase Your Value, Decrease Your Effort, Change Your World, Alan Willett
*The Hidden Secrets of the TSP Checkpoint, Liliana Cazangiu
*Toward A Quantified Reflection, William Nichols  
*Using TSP to Develop and Maintain Mission Critical IT Systems, Alex Obradovic




TSP Symposium 2013 Proceedings

The 2013 TSP Symposium was organized by the Software Engineering Institute and took place September 16–19 in Dallas, Texas. The goal of the TSP Symposium is to bring together practitioners and academics who share a common passion to change the world of software engineering for the better through disciplined practice. The conference theme was “When Software Really Matters,” which explored the idea that when product quality is critical, high-quality practices are the best way to achieve it. In keeping with that theme, the community contributed a variety of technical papers describing their experiences and research using the Personal Software ProcessSM (PSPSM) and Team Software ProcessSM (TSPSM). This report contains the four papers selected by the TSP Symposium Technical Program Committee. The topics include demonstrating the impact of the PSP on software quality and effort by eliminating the programming learning effect, analyzing student performance during the introduction of the PSP using an empirical cross-course comparison, incorporating PSP practices into introductory programming courses, and analyzing factors affecting productivity performance in PSP training.





Improving Introductory TSP for Creating High-Performance Student Teams, Masanobu Umeda, Keiichi Katamine, Masaaki Hashimoto, and Yoshihiro Akiyama

In cooperation with the SEI, the Kyushu Institute of Technology introduced software process education for graduate students based on the PSP and TSP. Students in PSP courses have generally achieved overall performance results similar to those using PSP in industry. In contrast, students in TSP courses, which are based on TSPi, a simplified introductory version of the TSP for educational purposes, were not as successful and could not complete more than two cycles due to repeated schedule delays (although quality was remarkable). We wanted to determine if course management problems were causing these delays, resolve any related issues, and allow TSPi teams to finish projects successfully. 

We studied one team in 2010 and two teams in 2011 and determined that the main reasons for the schedule delays were insufficient engineering knowledge to produce deliverables, improper performance of unfamiliar team processes, and time wasted on understanding the out-of-date TSPi tool. In 2012 we implemented several improvement actions to help with these issues. 

Our teams in 2012 demonstrated that TSPi works for creating high performance teams if several improvements are incorporated for educational purposes. In the future, we also plan to examine related lectures to ensure they are effectively presenting the engineering knowledge required for TSPi. This presentation will describe our efforts in evaluating and improving the use of TSPi in our classes.



No additional abstracts available.