Project LEAP: personal process improvement for the differently disciplined
Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Software engineering
Lessons learned from teaching reflective software engineering using the Leap toolkit
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Strategies for personal process improvement a comparison
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
A Critical Analysis of PSP Data Quality: Results from aCase Study
Empirical Software Engineering
Empirically Guided Software Effort Guesstimation
IEEE Software
Critical Factors Affecting Personal Software Processes
IEEE Software
IEEE Software
Personal Software Process: Classroom Experiences from Finland
ECSQ '02 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Quality
The Personal Software Process in Practice: Experience in Two Cases over Five Years
ECSQ '02 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Quality
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The Personal Software Process (PSP) has been taught at a number of universities with impressive results. If is also of interest to industry as a means for training their software engineers. While there are published reports on the teaching of PSP in classroom settings (at universities and industry), little systematic study has been conducted on the implementation of PSP in industry. Also, largely anecdotal evidence exists as to its effectiveness with real programming tasks. Effectiveness is measured in terms of the number of trained engineers who actually use PSP in their daily work, and improvements in productivity and defect removal. We report on a study of the implementation of some PSP concepts in a commercial organization. The empirical enquiry method that we employed was action research. Our results identify the problems that were encountered during the four major activities of an implementation of PSP: planning, training, evaluation, and leveraging. We describe how these problems were addressed, and the general lessons learned from the implementation. An overall transfer of PSP training rate of 46.5% was achieved. For the engineers in our study, those who applied all of the taught PSP concepts on-the-job improved their defect detection capabilities.