There have been only a handful of people who have made significant contributions to the state of the art in software engineering and software quality assurance. The psp was created by watts humphrey to apply the underlying principles of the software engineering institute s sei capability maturity model cmm to the software development practices of a single developer. Humphrey is a fellow and a research scientist in the software process program of the software engineering institute sei at carnegie mellon university in pittsburgh. Humphrey is a fellow of the software engineering institute sei at carnegie mellon university, where he founded the software process program and provided the vision and early leadership for the original capability. Today, i stand on the shoulders of a long history of giants. To make the japanese tacit knowledge regarding software quality to explicit knowledge. If you want software that is better quality, faster to the market, and cheaper to build, then watts humphrey and jim over have a tremendous amount of wisdom to share. He wrote the book on debugging industry insider, may 9, in some editions, the graphic a software cleanup showing defects per 1,000 lines of. Watts humphrey sei, winning software teams software.
When humphrey arrived at ibm in 1959, he initially worked in hardware as a computer designer and architect. Read more about watts humphrey to train 50,000 engineers on business standard. Humphrey also established the software process program at the sei, which he joined in 1986 after heading the ibm development team that. The watts humphrey software quality institute in chennai, india was named after him in 2000. In 2000, the watts humphrey software quality institute in chennai, india was named in his honor and the boeing corporation presented him with an award for innovation and leadership in software process improvement. Humphrey is the author of 12 books on software engineering and hundreds of technical reports, journal articles, and columns. Humphrey is a fellow of the software engineering institute sei at carnegie mellon university, where he founded the software process program and provided the vision and early leadership for the. Teams from various organizations across industries will be invited to nominate their practice case study. It claims to give software engineers the process skills necessary to work on a team software process tsp team. The watts humphrey software quality scholarship encourages students to pursue software quality concepts, technology, and tools to improve the workplace, products, and themselves. Watts humphreys road to excellence is worth following.
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He dedicated much of his career to addressing the problems of software development including schedule delays, cost overruns, software quality and productivity. These achievements need not have been based on a specific framework, model, or body of software engineering principles, practices, techniques, or methods. Humphrey, recognized as the father of software quality, honors achievements in any type of software qualityimprovement activity. In this transcript of an oral history, grady booch interviews sei fellow watts humphrey. Having founded a manufacturing business before founding a software business, watts humphrey, watt s father, and i realized the shared quality aspects are at the core of any successful business.
He dedicated much of his career to addressing the problems of software development including schedule delays, cost overruns. Humphrey humphrey is a fellow at the software engineering institute at carnegie mellon university, where he led the capability maturity model effort and other work to improve software. Humphrey, following a long career with ibm, served at the sei from 1986 until his death in 2010. A bayesian approach for assessing software quality and productivity. When watts humphrey arrived at the carnegie mellon software engineering institute sei in 1986, he made what he called an outrageous commitment to. His unparalleled contribution to software engineering made him one of the icons of the. Watts humphrey, the father of software quality, passed away at his residence in florida in october. Humphrey offers advice on implementing the software engineering institutes capability maturity. In part 16, they discuss humphrey s vision of the future for ibm circa 1972 and ibms push to improve quality on everything from semiconductors to installations. Often called the father of software quality, humphrey dedicated the majority of his career to addressing problems in software development, including schedule delays, cost increases, performance. Humphrey also led the development of the personal software process psp and the team software process tsp.
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Eventually graduated as valedictorian hs class 1953 came to boston work for sylvania designing circuits 1959 joined ibm initially as a hw architect. Dec 20, 2001 watts has provided that better way the psptsp, and a great robert musson vice president, business strategy cenus technologies an informative book for any business person not just technologists who has ever been associated or involved with a software development effort and thought there must be a better way. Reading these quotes is no substitute for reading the book and doing the exercises. In 2003, humphrey was awarded the national medal of technology. Picatinny organization recognized for highquality weapon systems software. He made important contributions to the software engineering field and was known as the father of software quality. Humphrey is the author of numerous influential books on the softwaredevelopment process and software process improvement. In the 1980s at the software engineering institute sei at carnegie mellon university humphrey founded the software process program, and served as. Pdf software quality triangle for total quality management.
Watts humphrey, a 2003 recipient of the united states patent and trademark offices national medal of technology, and fellow of the association for computing machinery and software engineering. Humphrey received an honorary doctor of software engineering from the embry riddle aeronautical university. Cullen, vice president, quality, oracle communications global business unit how to successfully manage knowledge workers is definitely the first of the. Known as the father of software quality, humphrey dedicated the majority of his career to addressing problems in software development, including schedule delays, cost increases, performance problems, and defects. Robert musson vice president, business strategy cenus technologies an informative book for any business person not just technologists who has ever been associated or involved with a software development effort and thought there must be a better way. An homage to watts humphrey father of software quality. Humphrey was a fellow of the software engineering institute sei and of the association for computing machinery 2008. He dedicated the majority of his career to addressing problems in software development including software quality.
These later became the basis for the development of the capability maturity model integration cmmi, a framework of software engineering best practices that has been adopted by thousands or organizations throughout the world. Watts humphrey dedicated his life to core software engineering issues related to schedule delays, cost overruns, performance issues, and software defects. Chennaibased watts humphrey software quality institute whsqi plans to train 50,000 engineers in personal software process psp by december 2006. As the software in todays systems grows larger, it has more. Watts humphrey, the father of software quality, passed away at his residence in florida on october 28, 2010.
Humphrey, known as the father of software quality, followed his long career at ibm with an equally distinguished career at the sei, where he served from 1986 until his death in 2010. Watts humphrey software quality scholarship community. Watts humphreys road to excellence is worth following sd times. Watts has provided that better way the psptsp, and a great.
In part 16, they discuss humphreys vision of the future for ibm circa 1972 and ibms push to improve quality on everything from semiconductors to installations. An homage to watts humphrey father of software quality mindtree. Ken lloydi was very sorry to hear about watts humphreys passing. The software engineering community recently lost one of its most influential and dynamic leaders. He dedicated a significant part of his life to addressing core software engineering issues related to schedule delays, cost overruns, performance issues, and software defects. For the majority of his career, humphrey worked to improve the profession of software engineering by focusing on software quality. Watts humphrey joe jarzombek capers jones stephen kan herb krasner gary mcgraw patricia mcquaid mark paulk colin tully jerry weinberg. Humphrey met his wife, barbara, while working for sylvania in boston. Watts humphrey a tribute to the father of software quality. Humphrey s 76 research works with 2,893 citations and 5,265 reads, including. Watts humphrey software engineering institute carnegie mellon. Humphreys 76 research works with 2,893 citations and 5,265 reads, including. Humphrey was dubbed father of software quality for his dedication to addressing obstacles in software development such as performance problems, defects, and cost increases.
Watts humphrey was an american software engineer and vice president of technical development at ibm. The watts humphrey software quality institute in chennai, india, is named after him. Watts humphrey awards is a prestigious recognition from spin chennai initiated to honor the software engineering guru and father of software quality dr. As the pioneering innovator behind several important software development processes, watts more than met his promise to change the world of software engineering. His unparalleled contribution to software engineering made him one of the icons of the discipline. Humphrey on the personal software process selected quotes from watts s. He wrote the book on debugging industry insider, may 9, in some editions, the graphic a software cleanup showing defects per. Watts humphrey has invented new stream of software process quality, which gave birth to lot of quality professionals my sincere condolences to watts humphrey srinivasa rao ganta watts is one of the most remarkable people that i have ever worked with. The watts humphrey software quality institute in chennai, india is named after him. Humphrey offers advice on implementing the software engineering institutes capability maturity model. Humphrey, managihg the software process, addison wesley 8. Managing the software process by watts s humphrey book 39 editions published between 1989 and 2008 in 6 languages and held by 585 worldcat member libraries worldwide. Software quality triangle for total quality management. In 2005, at the white house, the president of the united states awarded mr.
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