Investigating data quality problems in the PSP
SIGSOFT '98/FSE-6 Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering
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Extra unofficial hours to maintain the budget, working late to finish on time, project scope renegotiations when we are on the limit, all are things that most software engineers know about to save their projects from failing. When thinking about software process improvement, several methodologies can be found on the literature. In this paper, we will show the application of these tools in a specific case: a R&D centre where, despite the existence of a quality culture and procedures, software projects suffer from the same general illness of over-budgeting and delaying. The method we propose is based in the Personal Software Process (PSP), which differs from others - generally more focused on the company's general structure and organizational issues- in that it deals with the individual work of the developer. Based on previous experiences on the use of PSP and taking into account the particular characteristics of the workplace, a tool is proposed and described.