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Three Process Perspectives: Organizations, Teams, and People

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This paper provides the author's personal views and perspectives on software process improvement. Starting with his first work on technology assessment in IBM over 20 years ago, Watts Humphrey describes the process improvement work he has been directly involved in. This includes the development of the early process assessment methods, the original design of the CMM, and the introduction of the Personal Software Process (PSP)SM and Team Software Process (TSP){SM}. In addition to describing the original motivation for this work, the author also reviews many of the problems he and his associates encountered and why they solved them the way they did. He also comments on the outstanding issues and likely directions for future work. Finally, this work has built on the experiences and contributions of many people. Mr. Humphrey only describes work that he was personally involved in and he names many of the key contributors. However, so many people have been involved in this work that a full list of the important participants would be impractical.

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  1. The Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, 4500 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA, 15213, USA

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Humphrey, W.S. Three Process Perspectives: Organizations, Teams, and People. Annals of Software Engineering 14, 39–72 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020593305601

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