Personal Software Process
The Personal Software Process (PSP) is often categorized as a religion by those who first hear of it. In a sense, it is a religion in exactly the same way that the scientific method is a religion. Theories are proposed and rigorously tested using an accepted method. The belief in the theory continues only so long as the data are not available. The data becomes the ultimate arbitrator, and opinion is dismissed.
The PSP was created by Watts Humphrey at the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie-Mellon University.[2] The basic hypothesis is that the individual engineer must do the work; therefore, it is the individual engineer who must own the process. Like the agile methods, the individual is valued over the organizational ...
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