To have a high-performance software organization you must have high performance teams, staffed with high-performance software engineers. Watts S. Humphrey, the visionary behind the CMM®, has developed the Personal Software Process (PSP) and the Team Software Process (TSP) to provide a roadmap for organizations and individuals to follow on this road to high-performance.

While Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI®) focuses on what organizations should do, it does not specify how to reach those goals. The PSP provides specific guidance on how individual engineers can continually improve their performance. The TSP provides specific guidance about how PSP-trained engineers can work as effective team members on a high-performance team. All of these technologies can work together to allow organizations to produce quality software on schedule.

• http://www.sei.cmu.edu/tsp/

-- GregorioIvanoff - 26 Jan 2004