Abstract :
The Personal Software Process is designed for engineers working in isolated settings. The author describes a case study where he introduced the PSP in an industrial environment and that effort raised the issues of: training form and duration, resistance to change, independence and dependence between the single programmer and his or her team, overhead in data collection and tool support, and sustainability of measure. We addressed these problems by considerably modifying the PSP for that environment. One year after its introduction, only part of the PSP is still in use. The PSP proved to be more useful as a model to inspire a process improvement effort than as an off-the-shelf process to be reused without modification. Although the modifications cannot be generalized, the experience gained can
Keywords :
human factors; human resource management; management of change; manufacturing data processing; professional aspects; social aspects of automation; software development management; software process improvement; software quality; PSP application; Personal Software Process; case study; data collection; industrial environment; isolated settings; off-the-shelf process; process improvement effort; resistance to change; single programmer; sustainability; tool support; training form; Application software; Computer industry; Costs; Data engineering; Design engineering; Process design; Software design; Software maintenance; Software quality; User interfaces;
