- Watts Humphrey
Watts S. Humphrey is a key thinker in the discipline of software engineering, and is often called the father of software quality.His main contribution to the software engineering processes resides in the creation of the Software Process Program at Carnegie Mellon's
Software Engineering Institute . His work as a director of that program later generated theCapability Maturity Model (CMM). After that, he created thePersonal Software Process (PSP) and theTeam Software Process (TSP). His personal goal was always to improve quality and productivity in software development and to ease what was called the "Software Crisis".Watts S. Humphrey founded the Software Process Program of the
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) atCarnegie Mellon University in 1986, and served as director of that program until the early 90s. This program aimed at the understanding and the managing of the software engineering process because this is where big and small organizations or individuals encounter the most serious difficulties and where, thereafter, lies in the best opportunity for significant improvement.Humphrey is the author of several books, including "Managing Technical People", "
Managing the Software Process ", "A Discipline for Software Engineering", "The Team Software Process" and "Winning with software". Humphrey is a Fellow of theSoftware Engineering Institute (SEI). Humphrey was previously a Vice President atIBM . TheWatts Humphrey Software Quality Institute inChennai ,India is named after him.In 2003, Watts Humphrey was awarded the
National Medal of Technology . ( [http://www.sei.cmu.edu/about/press/releases/watts_release.html Press Release] )In the late 1960s, Humphrey headed the IBM software team that introduced the first
software license . Humphrey earned hisMBA from theUniversity of Chicago Graduate School of Business .See also
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Personal Software Process (PSP)
*Team Software Process (TSP)
* "Managing technical people"External links
* [http://www.sei.cmu.edu/tsp/people/humphrey.html Biography at SEI website]
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