TSP Executive Strategy Seminar

Would you like to be able to make commitment to your customers and be confident that your engineering teams can deliver on these commitments?

Course Description

Team Software Process Executive Strategy Seminar for software executives and middle managers is a two-day introductory course that covers the key concepts and principles of the TSP and Personal Software Process (PSP) from a management perspective. The purpose of the course is to provide the foundation that managers need to begin to introduce and apply the TSP in their organization.

Organizations that develop software recognize that controlling their software process significantly affects their ability to be successful in business. However, organizations still struggle when trying to apply disciplined methods in the software process. Historically, this struggle has been due to a lack of operational procedures that teams and individuals can use to develop software in a disciplined fashion.

The Team Software Process are designed to provide both a strategy and a set of operational procedures using disciplined software process methods at the individual and team levels.

At the individual level, the PSP

	shows manager and engineers how and why to plan and track their projects
	demonstrates the principles and benefits of effective quality management
	involves the engineers in process measurement, management and improvement

At the team level, the TSP

	builds accurate, achievable plans for software projects teams
	provides a formal team-building process
	provides the mechanism for tracking progress against project plans

Team Software Process describes the disciplined methods that engineers and teams use when applying the PSP and TSP technologies. The course provides the executive skills required for an organization to adopt and effectively use the TSP.

Audience

This course is for executives and middle managers who are responsible for software development or maintenance.

Managers who are responsible for software support areas such as software quality assurance, software engineering process groups, systems or hardware engineering, documentation, or finance.

Objectives

Successful completion of this course enables participants to

	describe the basic concepts on which the TSP is built
	describe how the TSP can effectively improve software development activities and provide positive motivation for engineers and project teams
	show how to use the TSP to address current and future software needs
	describe how to successfully introduce and maintain TSP
	show what management must do to help their teams be successful

Topics

	A strategic perspective of the software business, its problems and possible solutions to those problems
	An overview of the PSP and how it provides a means for introducing sound engineering practices into software engineering work
	An overview of the TSP and how it works to build self-directed high-performance teams
	Rational management (managing with facts and data) and why this type of management is required to maintain successful TSP teams
	Quality during software development, how TSP teams manage development quality and produce quality products
	Introducing TSP into an organization

Course Pre-work

After registering for the TSP Executive Strategy Seminar, attendees receive a copy of the book Winning with Software: An Executive Strategy by Watts Humphrey, ISBN 0-201-77639-1, 2001.

An accompanying letter details the pre-course reading assignments. It is important that the assigned chapters are read before coming to the course.

Class Schedule

The TSP Executive Strategy Seminar is a two-day course.

Day one: 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Day two: 8:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Availability

Courses are typically offered by special arrangement at customer sites.

Cost

This class is generally taught as part of a comprehensive introduction program at the customer site.

When taught at the Northern Horizons facilities, the cost is:

Industry: $800 per person

Government: $800 per person

Academic: $700 per person

Course Registration

To register for this course, contact by

Mail: Northern Horizons Inc., 61 Russell Hill Road, Brookline, NH 03033

Phone: (603) 673-2808

E-mail: rtonneberger@NorthHorizons.com

Questions about this course?

If you need more information, contact us via e-mail at rtonneberger@NorthHorizons.com or telephone at (603) 673-2808.