Rochester Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society Presents Alan Willett of Xerox

April 12th, 2000 Joint Chapters Meeting starting at 5:00 PM with optional dinner at 6:30 PM

Featured talk at 5 PM in Bldg 12 Room 1105

Rochester Institute of Technology: Register at the Skalney room (below Chapel in Bldg. 16) Rochester, NY

Achieving Personal Software Engineering Excellence: An introduction to the Personal Software Process

"The personal software process (PSP) is a self-improvement process designed to help you control, manage, and improve the way you work. It is a structured framework of forms, guidelines, and procedures for developing software. The PSP's sole purpose is to help you be a better software engineer." -- From Watts Humphrey's book A discipline for Software Engineering

A growing mountain of evidence indicates that individuals and teams who complete the PSP training deliver much higher quality software, in the same or less time, at highly predictable costs and schedule. In this presentation Alan Willett will discuss his personal experiences in taking the PSP course, and in so doing, how it transformed his views of software engineering.

The presentation will answer the following questions:

What is the PSP?
How does this all fit with the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)?
What is a CMM level 5 personal process like?
What are the results of students across the industry?
What is the Team Software Process (TSP) and how does it build on the PSP?
What is the investment needed to take a project team through the PSP/ TSP?
How quickly is the investment returned to the organization?

Presentor Biography:

Alan Willett orchestrates the Xerox MessageBroker organization software process improvement program. In Alan's 20 years of working in software he has covered various areas including order entry system developer, engineering tools developer, software engineer, software project manager, software configuration management manager, multinational launch translation manager, and Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) member. Alan has BS in computer science and a Masters degree in Management of Software Engineering/ Management of Technology. He is SEI certified to teach the Personal Software Process. Alan spoke at the 1998 Software Engineering Symposium on the topic "Leading Transitions Successfully". On March 22nd, Alan is speaking at the International SEPG 2000 conference. His talk is entitled "Begin with a lever and move the world".


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