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External coaches can come into a company and help launch this process. Most
people in development are doers, not planners, so it takes a lot of discipline to get
that up-front time into planning. A coach can help keep people on track during the
planning phase.
When we trained people in PSP at Vicarious Vision, we did not know whether
a team would be interested in also using TSP. We did not want to assume teams
wanted to use TSP, but we certainly would support any that did. After PSP train-
ing there were quite a few people who were interested to taking that next step with
TSP, and many of them were put on a ...