Past Recipients
Humphrey Award recipients are required to produce an SEI technical report that describes their accomplishments, their "improvement journey," and the resulting insights, experiences, and proven practices. Here are the reports written by previous recipients.
2020
Accenture: An Automation Maturity Journey, 2021
Rajendra T. Prasad
Podcast:
A Discussion on Automation with Watts Humphrey Award Winner Rajendra Prasad
Biography and video profile:
Rajendra Prasad, Award Recipient (IEEE Computer Society)
2018
IEEE Computer Society/Software Engineering Institute Watts S. Humphrey Software Process Achievement Award 2018: U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center (CCDC Armaments Center), Fire Control Systems & Technology Directorate (FCSTD), 2018
Victor A. Elias, U.S. Army CCDC Armaments Center, Fire Control Systems and Technology Directorate
2016
IEEE Computer Society/Software Engineering Institute Watts S. Humphrey Software Process Achievement (SPA) Award 2016: Nationwide, 2016
Will J.M. Pohlman, Nationwide IT
IEEE Computer Society/Software Engineering Institute Watts S. Humphrey Software Process Achievement (SPA) Award 2016: Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, 2016
Neal Mackertich, Peter Kraus, Kurt Mittelstaedt, Brian Foley, Dan Bardsley, Kelli Grimes, Mike Nolan, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems - Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
2009
IEEE Computer Society/Software Engineering Institute Software Process Achievement (SPA) Award 2009, 2009
Satyendra Kumar and Ramakrishnan M., Infosys Technologies, Ltd.
2006
Productora de Software S.A. (PSL), 2006
2004
Software Process Improvement Journey: IBM Australia Application Management Services, 2004
Robyn Nichols and Colin Connaughton, IBM Australia Application Management Services
2002
An Integrated Approach to Software Process Improvement at Wipro Technologies: veloci-Q, 2002
V. Subramanyam, Sambuddha Deb, Priya Krishnaswamy, and Rituparna Ghosh, Wipro Technologies
1999
Software Process Achievement at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, 1999
Kelley Butler and Walter Lipke, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center, Directorate of Aircraft, Software Division, Test Software and Industrial Automation Branches
1998
Software Process Improvement Works! 1998
Pat Ferguson, Gloria Leman, Prasad Perini, Susan Renner, and Girish Seshagiri, Advanced Information Services, Inc.
1997
Hughes Aircraft's Widespread Deployment of a Continuously Improving Software Process, 1997
Ron R. Willis, Robert M. Rova, Michael D. Scott, Martha I. Johnson, John F. Ryskowski, Jane A. Moon, Ken C. Shumate, and Thomas O. Winfield, Raytheon Systems Company
1995
Raytheon Electronic Systems Experience in Software Process Improvement, 1995
Blake Ireland, Ed Wojtaszek, Dan Nash, Ray Dion, and Tom Haley, Raytheon Electronic Systems
1994
Software Process Improvement in the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory, 1994
Frank McGarry and Rose Pajerski, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Gerald Page and Sharon Waligora, Computer Sciences Corporation
V. Basili and M. Zelkowitz, University of Maryland
“We have found [that] by applying to software the principles that made the industrial revolution possible, software engineering teams can achieve improvements in quality, predictability, and productivity that exceed our wildest dreams.”
—Watts S. Humphrey