Watts S. Humphrey (1927–2010)

Author of Managing the Software Process

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About the Author

Watts S. Humphrey, a widely respected authority on software process improvement and a long-time senior manager of software development at IBM, is a Fellow at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Mr. Humphrey also is the author of Managing the Software Process (1989), A show more Discipline for Software Engineering (1995), Managing Technical People (1997), and Introduction to the Personal Software Process (1997). show less

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Managing the Software Process (1989) — Author — 141 copies

A Discipline for Software Engineering (1995) — Author — 124 copies

Introduction to the Personal Software Process (1996) — Author — 124 copies

Introduction to the Team Software Process (1999) 57 copies

Managing Technical People : Innovation, Teamwork, and the Software Process (SEI Series in Software Engineering) (1996) — Author — 51 copies

PSP: A Self-Improvement Process for Software Engineers (2005) 43 copies

Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy (2001) 27 copies

Reflections on Management: How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself (2010) 27 copies

TSP: Leading a Development Team (1704) 26 copies

TSP: Coaching Development Teams (2006) 12 copies

Mastering the Multistate Bar Exam, 2E (Mastering the Mbe) (2007) 10 copies

Leadership, Teamwork, and Trust: Building a Competitive Software Capability (2010) 7 copies

Managing for Innovation: Leading Technical People (1987) 4 copies

Switching circuits with computer applications 3 copies

Dirección para la innovación (Spanish Edition) (1989) 2 copies

Improving Personal Productivity 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1927-07-04
Date of death: 2010-10-28
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Battle Creek, Michigan, USA
Organizations: Software Engineering Institute (Fellow)
ACM (Fellow, 2008)
Awards and honors: National Medal of Technology (2003)

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A Discipline for Software Engineering (SEI Series in… by Watts S. Humphrey

Perhaps it says more about me than about the calibration of this book, but while working through it on my own I got to program 2A (1/6th of the way through the book), said "Writing a *good* Lines-of-Code counter seems hard to do in any language I know", and dropped the book. Has a time-and-motion-like focus on quantifying the fine-grained details of the student's effectiveness at writing software, under the theory that we can then vary the processes used and *measure* whether the new processes are actually any better.… (more)

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