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What is the Personal Software Process (PSP)?

1. Time and Defect recording
2. Software Size measurement
3. Software Size estimation
4. Statistically based estimation using Proxies
5. Time estimation and project scheduling
6. Process management
7. Design and Code reviews
8. Quality management through defect reduction
9. Design notation, techniques, verification
10. Scaling up the PSP to larger projects
11. How to develop the PSP into the future

It is already being taught in universities such as Carnegie Mellon, and world-wide interest is spreading. In Ireland, courses are run at the Centre for Software Engineering, based at Dublin City University Campus.

We offer a Free Download of some Personal Software Process forms and tools

Book references to the PSP at Amazon:

Book Description		.com	.co.uk	.de	.fr	.ca	.co.jp
		$	£	€	€	CAD	JPY
Introduction to the Personal Software Process (Sei Series in Software Engineering) Addison-Wesley Pub Co Watts S. Humphrey / Paperback / Published 1996		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan
Introduction to the Team Software Process (SEI Series in Software Engineering); Watts S. Humphrey, et al.		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan
A Discipline for Software Engineering (SEI Series in Software Engineering) ; Watts S. Humphrey Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1995.		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan
Managing Technical People : Innovation, Teamwork, and the Software Process (SEI Series in Software Engineering) ; Watts S. Humphrey.		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan
More books on software process improvement...
Building Quality into Software: A Guide to Manage Quality in Software Development and Use by Horst P. Richter		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan
Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process (agile modelling) by Scott W. Ambler, Ron Jeffries		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan
Professional Software Development: Shorter Schedules, Higher Quality Products, More Successful Projects, Enhanced Careers by Steve McConnell		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan
Customer Oriented Software Quality Assurance by Frank P. Ginac		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan
The Rational Unified Process Made Easy: A Practitioner's Guide to Rational Unified Process by Per Kroll, Philippe Kruchten		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan
UML and the Unified Process: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design by Jim Arlow, Ila Neustadt		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan
The Handbook of Software Quality Assurance (3rd Edition) by G. Gordon Schulmeyer, James I. Mcmanus		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan
Software Quality Assurance : From Theory to Implementation by Daniel Galin		USA	UK	Germany	France	Canada	Japan

Articles:

Using a Defined and Measured Personal Software Process
by Watts S. Humphrey, IEEE Software, May 1996, pp. 77-88.

The Personal Software Process(PSP):
    An Empirical Study of the Impact of PSP on Individual Engineers
    by Will Hayes and James W. Over
    December 1997      CMU/SEI-97-TR-001

Results of Applying the Personal Software Process
    by Pat Ferguson et al
    IEEE Computer, May 1997, pp.24-31

The PSP mail list

This is where PSP practitioners around the world exchange ideas.

To subscribe, send email to epspi-subscribe at yahoogroups dot com with the subject blank and body message "subscribe Your Name".

PSP links

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) : www.sei.cmu.edu/tsp/ Building High Performance Teams Using Team Software Process SM (TSP sm) and Personal Software Process SM (PSP sm)

Centre for Software Engineering (CSE) : www.cse.dcu.ie/  
Check out the SPIRE handbook. You can download by FTP a PDF document on the PSP

http://davidfrico.com David Frico's PSP pages have many links to tools, downloadable documents, and web sites, worth a visit.

www.stpp.com/ Dan Roy's STPP (Software Technology, Process and People) has several articles and useful tips to better your PSP.

http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/Tools/LEAP/LEAP.html The LEAP tool (18MB !) The goal of Project LEAP is to produce tools and techniques to support software process improvement for individual software engineers that are light-weight, empirical, automated, and portable.

http://processdash.sourceforge.net PSP Process Dashboard is an open source tool with java source. (About a half a megabyte) 

www.ipd.uka.de/PSP/ PSP Resources Page maintained by Oliver Gramberg at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

www.ipd.uka.de/~prechelt/  Lutz Prechelt's page was maintained as an archive, including an archive of the psplist. (not found Feb 2004)

http://epic.onion.it/workshops/w08/syn04.html    ESSI Project No. 24060 (PSP-NC ) PERSONAL SOFTWARE PROCESS IN NUMERICAL CONTROL PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT

www.affari.com/essi_training/snap_trapsp.htm (not found June 2003) TRAPSP Advanced Multimedia and distance training for SME teams using the Personal Software Process. Download the Report PDF

http://www.cordis.lu/esprit/src/24158.htm  ESSI Project No. 24158 ( PERSPI ) PERSONAL SOFTWARE PROCESS IMPROVEMENT Final report (201K PDF)

www-cs.etsu.edu/psp/ East Tennessee State University's Personal Software Process Studio Home page. (Not found June 2003)

www.cs.umu.se/~jubo/UPSP/  Sweden: Umeå universitet Teknisk-naturvetenskaplig fakultet Institutionen för datavetenskap. "We have chosen to make a few modifications to the original PSP and defined a new version by taking away a few things from PSP1, but added design and code reviews, which are first introduced in PSP2. UPSP is supported by PSPToolkit, a tool that was developed in Java at our department.  PSPToolkit automates some of the task of UPSP like time and defect logging and the generation of summary forms." 

http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/Tools/JavaCount/JavaCount.html  JavaLOC: a tool for counting non-comment lines of Java source code on a per-class and per-method basis. JavaDiff: a tool for counting the number of lines added and deleted in two versions of a java source code file.

http://www.cs.swt.edu/~donshafer/JSEDE/site/document/dir-prot/PROTO_SE.HTM  (no such host, Jan 2005)
Psptool is a tool to automate collection of some simple but very useful statistics on a programmer's work so they can improve their programming method.

www.softwaresixsigma.com/Bibliography.htm PS&J Software Six Sigma list of publications drawing on the Honeywell experiences.

http://sern.ucalgary.ca/courses/seng/621/W97/johnf/thesis/thesis.htm  The One Person Project Software Process. Author: John Frankovich (Advanced Information Services) The OPP is intended to be used by an individual engineer who is working on a one person project, who does not have the support of a mature organization, and who does not have control over his work environment. 

www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/ Crosstalk magazine June 2000
• "Building Productive Teams" W. Humphrey 
• "Managing Risk with the TSP" D. Webb  
• "Making Quality Happen: The Manager's Role" G. Seshagiri 
• "PSP: Fair Warning" by Elizabeth Starrett Air Force Mission Planning System. "The PSP Course is difficult and time consuming. The automated PSP tool developed and used by my organization is open source and freely available to anyone interested." 

www.stsc.hill.af.mil/crosstalk/2000/08/stscdocs.html Disciplined Software Development, A Review of Personal Software Process (PSP) and Team Software Process (TSP) from the Software Technology Support Center of the US Department of Defense. The STSC's PSP goal is to be THE organization specializing in solving DoD specific barriers to PSP adoption and in successfully inserting PSP into the DoD software culture.

www.stickyminds.com/sitewide.asp?Function=edetail&ObjectType=ART&ObjectId=3640  Article: "Mutual Programming" by Gerold Keefer/Hanna Lubecka reviews PSP, TSP, XP, PP to  "balance between simplicity and formal rigor in a way that makes adoption easy, but does not compromise necessary formal aspects, such as explicit, measurable quality assurance, and clear entry and exit criteria." Download (206 Kb PDF)

www.nyx.net/~vputz/psp_index/book1.html The Personal Software Process: an Independent Study by Victor Putz.
"Primarily, an exploration of the software engineering institute's personal software process, using gnu emacs and GCC C++ as a software development environment. Secondarily, a comparison of the Eiffel language and C++ language in terms of development time, defect data, and executable size/speed."

Personal pages:

Published results of Andrew Worsley  http://www3.cm.deakin.edu.au/~peter/PSP_data/Contributor_index.html 

www.cs.usask.ca/grads/vsk719/academic/856/project/project.html Personal Software Process in Meta-CASE CMPT 856 - Project (not found Aug 2002)

www.soberit.hut.fi/tik-76.115/99-00/palautukset/groups/PSP-HAG/ps/documents/ps.html
 Some PSP experiments in Finland - in Finnish only, and only for internal access - Google may have cached them.

http://hornet.ls.fi.upm.es/info/DSP/practicas/ In Spanish (not found Aug 2002)