The Personal Software Process (PSPSM): An Empirical Study of the Impact of PSP on Individual Engineers.

Abstract

This report documents the results of a study that is important to everyone who manages or develops software. The study examines the impact of the Personal Software Process (PSP) on the performance of 298 software engineers. The report describes the effect of PSP on key performance dimensions of these engineers, including their ability to estimate and plan their work, the quality of the software they produced, the quality of their work process, and their productivity. The report also discusses how improvements in personal capability also improve organizational performance in several areas: cost and schedule management, delivered product quality, and product cycle time.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA335543

Entities

People

  • James W. Over
  • Will Hayes

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Analysis Of Variance
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Science
  • Network Science
  • Software Development
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Tests
  • Students

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Software Engineering.