Software process improvement—A personal view: How it started and where it is going: Research Sections

  • Authors:
  • Watts S. Humphrey

  • Affiliations:
  • The Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon, 4500 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15 213, USA

  • Venue:
  • Software Process: Improvement and Practice
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

While the software process improvement movement is relatively recent, the need for improvement is not new. In this paper, the author reviews his personal experiences with software process improvement and describes some of the key events that led to such current widely-used methods as the CMMI, the PSP, and the TSP. He summarizes the principles behind these methods and explains the principal reasons that these highly effective development methods have not been adopted more rapidly. In closing, he notes that their ultimate adoption is inevitable. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.