Skip to Content
Introduction to the Personal Software Process(SM)
book

Introduction to the Personal Software Process(SM)

by Watts S. Humphrey - Carnegie Mellon University
December 1996
Beginner
304 pages
6h 43m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from Introduction to the Personal Software Process(SM)

3 Tracking Time

This chapter describes a procedure and a form for tracking and recording the way you spend time. It also gives examples of the kinds of time records to keep. For the assignment, you will establish and use a Time Recording Log.

3.1 Why Track Time?

As described in Chapter 1, the way to improve the quality of your work is to start by understanding what you currently do. This means you have to know the tasks you do, how you do them, and the results you get. The first step in this process is to define the tasks and find out how much time you spend on each. To do this, you must actually measure the time. This chapter describes how to measure time and it introduces a form to help you do it.

My experience writing an earlier book demonstrates ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Introduction to the Team Software Process(SM)

Introduction to the Team Software Process(SM)

Watts S. Humphrey, James W. Over
What Successful Project Managers Do

What Successful Project Managers Do

W. Scott Cameron, Jeffrey S. Russell, Edward J. Hoffman, Alexander Laufer

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780768685855Purchase book