Dr. Iraj Hirmanpour

Abstract: The Team Software Process (TSP^SM) and Personal Software Process (PSP^SP) together provide a set of practices simple enough to help individual developers and software teams create and manage their personal and team plans with strong emphasis on quality. Yet, PSP &TSP are not simple enough to practice as they require behavior change by both management and development team.

PSP & TSP provide a quantitative framework to help individual developers gain visibility into their personal development processes, providing early warning systems of quality issues and schedule slippage. In this presentation, we describe the PSP/TSP framework, show how it is put into practice, and describe the benefits that can be achieved by employing the framework. We also discuss cultural issues that need to overcome based on presenter’s experience with PSP/TSP implementation.

Dr. Iraj Hirmanpour: An advocate of the Watts Humphrey’s software quality teachings, a Visiting Scientist with the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (SEI), and principal of AMS, Inc., an SEI transition partner firm. Iraj is an SEI-certified PSP instructor and TSP launch coach. He has practical experience with PSP training and TSP launch coaching at major organizations such as Microsoft Corporation, Sandia National Laboratories, Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVO), Boeing Space Division, and Motorola Paging Product Group (PPG).

Iraj is also SEI’s academic liaison for the transition of PSP and TSP into academic curricula. As a former Professor and Department Chair, he has both academic and practical experience in software engineering subjects and continues to be involved in software engineering research.