Watts S Humphrey: 7 books
Reflections on Management
How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2010
A Lifetime of Invaluable Management Insights from Legendary Software Quality Guru Watts S. Humphrey In 1986, Watts S. Humphrey made an outrageous commitment: a promise to transform software development. As the pioneering innovator behind SEI's Capability Maturity Model (CMM), Personal Software Process...
Winning with Software
An Executive Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2001
"Every senior executive needs to read this book."
--Robert Musson Vice President, Business Strategy Cenus Technologies
"An informative book for any business person (not just technologists) who has ever been associated or involved with a software development effort and...
by Watts S. Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
Most modern software development projects require teams, and good teamwork largely determines a project’s success. The Team Software Process (TSP), created by Watts S. Humphrey, is a set of engineering practices and team concepts that produce effective teams, thereby helping developers deliver high-quality...
by Watts S. Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2005
Leaders of software-development projects face many challenges. First, you must produce a quality product on schedule and on budget. Second, you must foster and encourage a cohesive, motivated, and smoothly operating team. And third, you must maintain a clear and consistent focus on short- and long-term...
by Watts S. Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 1999
Watts Humphrey is the visionary behind the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)(R) and the Personal Software Process (PSP) (sm). The CMM contains a framework for software process improvement at the organizational level. The PSP builds the self-discipline needed for individual programmers to work efficiently...
PSP(sm)
A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2005
Most software-development groups have embarrassing records: By some accounts, more than half of all software projects are significantly late and over budget, and nearly a quarter of them are cancelled without ever being completed. Although developers recognize that unrealistic schedules, inadequate resources,...
Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust
Building a Competitive Software Capability
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2010
Every business is a software business, and every business can profit from improved software processes Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust discusses the critical importance of knowledge work to the success of modern organizations. It explains concrete and necessary steps for reshaping the way...