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The PSP offers a promising way to help software engineers improve their skills and abilities. University courses have been successful in training engineers in the PSP but industrial introduction is substantially more challenging. Engineers who take university courses will generally complete the course when they are motivated by a degree, tuition reimbursement, or a financial reward. Early industrial experience demonstrates that with the support and active participation of all levels of management, PSP introduction can be successful. The best case is when an immediate manager takes the PSP course with a software team and the work is treated as a project commitment.
This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Defense
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Humphrey, W.S. (1995). A personal commitment to software quality. In: Schäfer, W., Botella, P. (eds) Software Engineering — ESEC '95. ESEC 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 989. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60406-5_3
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