TSP Symposium 2014 Proceedings and Presentations
Proceedings and Presentations of the Ninth Annual TSP Symposium, Pittsburgh, PA, November 3-6, 2014
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The ACE (Accurate Confident Estimating) Process
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By Carl Wyrwa (Beckman Coulter)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation introduces the ACE Process, which provides a structured approach teams can use to develop an Accurate and Confident Estimates.
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Advanced Modeling of Teaming Data to Enable Superior Team Performance
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By Robert W. Stoddard, Dan Bennett (Hill Air Force Base), David Webb (Hill Air Force Base), Rushby Craig (Hill Air Force Base), Lance Moore (Hill Air Force Base)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation describes data analyzed using statistical analysis and modern structural equation modeling (SEM) to enhance team performance.
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An Extension of the PSP PROBE Process to Help Students Make More Reliable Estimates in Early Stages of PSP Training
November 5, 2014 • Presentation
By Yoshihiro Akiyama (Next Process, Inc.)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation overviews how to reduce students' over- or underestimates in new program development by extending the PSP PROBE process.
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An Incremental Life-Cycle Assurance Strategy for Critical System Certification
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By Peter H. Feiler
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation describes an architecture-led incremental assurance strategy that addresses mission- and safety-critical software-reliant systems.
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Architecture Best Practices for Project and Technical Leaders
November 5, 2014 • Presentation
By Felix Bachmann, Jim McHale, Timothy Morrow
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation describes a set of architecture best practices based on commercial and government experiences in software development.
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A Vendor Development Program: Smart Clients Are a Success Factor
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By Francisco Aleman (Delaware Software)
This 2014 TSP Symposium presentation introduces the Performance and Capability Evaluation (PACE) framework to transform outsourcing companies into business partners.
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A Zero-Depth Entry to Using TSP: How TSP Turned Around the Smart Grid Maturity Model Project
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By Julia L. Mullaney, Summer C. Fowler
This 2014 TSP Symposium presentation describes how basic Team Software Process principles were used to bring the Smart Grid Maturity Model project under control.
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Case Study of Toyota Unintended Acceleration and Software Safety
November 4, 2014 • Article
By Philip Koopman (Carnegie Mellon University)
In this TSP Symposium 2014 keynote presentation, CMU's Philip Koopman outlines key events and technical issues in the Toyota Unintended Acceleration story.
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Common System and Software Testing Pitfalls (2014)
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By Donald Firesmith
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation describes a taxonomy of 145 testing pitfalls in 21 categories, documented by causes, consequences, and recommendations.
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Evolving Postmortems as Teams Evolve Through TxP
November 5, 2014 • Presentation
By Brad Hodgins (NAVAIR)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation introduces graphs effective in presenting analysis results at various levels of evolution as a team works toward becoming a TxP team.
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Graphical Recordings of the TSP Symposium
November 24, 2014 • Presentation
A graphic designer captured nine presentations from the TSP Symposium 2014 in graphical recordings.
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Information Flow: The Secret to Successful Teamwork
November 5, 2014 • Presentation
By Jesse Schell (Schell Games)
In this TSP Symposium 2014 keynote presentation, Jesse Schell explains what he has learned from professional game development that helps teams succeed or causes them to fail.
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Insider Threats in the Software Development Life Cycle
November 5, 2014 • Presentation
By Daniel L. Costa, Randall F. Trzeciak
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation uncovers patterns from cases in which insiders exploited vulnerabilities in software development processes to harm their organizations.
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Introduction to Software Product Lines
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By Patrick Donohoe
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation introduces software product line development, essential activities and underlying practices, and costs and benefits of adoption.
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Scrum: Creating Great Products and Critical Systems – What to Worry About, What’s Missing, and How to Fix It
November 5, 2014 • Presentation
By Neil Potter (The Process Group)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation enumerates the problems to look out for in Scrum/Agile implementations and provides example corrective actions.
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SEMPRE: The TSP Software Engineering Measured Performance Repository
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By William Nichols, Yasutaka Shirai (Toshiba)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation introduces data collected via the Process Dashboard tool and provides some initial benchmark statistics for project planning.
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Software Architecture Decision-Making Techniques
November 5, 2014 • Presentation
By Elizabeth Correa (Verizon)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation explains that many architects suffer from analysis paralysis and provides techniques to apply to software design decisions.
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Taking the Team Meeting to the Next Level
November 3, 2014 • Conference Paper
By David Saint-Amand (NAVAIR)
This TSP Symposium 2014 paper reviews the development of an effective and efficient tool for encouraging participation and capturing information at team status meetings.
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Tales from the Quality Journey
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By Darryl Davis (Davis Systems)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation shares quality management insights from 31 years in product development, manufacturing, management, and process improvement.
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The Executive View: Beyond the Methodology
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By David VanEpps (Acxiom)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation describes using CMMI methodology and Team Software Process training to solve critical business problems.
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The Impact of the PSP on Software Quality: Eliminating the Learning Effect Threat Through a Controlled Experiment
November 5, 2014 • Presentation
By Fernanda Grazioli (Universidad de la República), Diego Vallespir (Universidad de la República), Silvana Moreno (Universidad de la República), Leticia Perez-Queiruga (Universidad de la República)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation provides results indicating that the Personal Software Process is the most plausible cause of software quality improvements.
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TSP History and Evolution at Cadence Design Systems
November 5, 2014 • Presentation
By Elias Fallon (Cadence Design Systems, Inc.)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation describes how Cadence applied the principles of TSP to develop an approach called Cadence Development Engineer Training (CaDET).
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TSP in Non-implementation Phases: An Experience in How Disciplined Measurement Has Helped Overcome Obstacles in Deploying TSP in Mexican Organizations
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By Blanca Gil (Software Industry Excellence Center de Mexico)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation shares the challenges faced in several TSP implementations and how these projects enabled cultural change in the organizations.
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TSP-PACE: Process and Capability Evaluation, an Experience Report
November 5, 2014 • Presentation
By Antonio Mejorado (Tecnológico de Monterrey University), Rafael Salazar (Tecnológico de Monterrey University), William Nichols
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation presents results of TSP evaluations in PACE pilots and describes how they support organizational improvement and national benchmarking.
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Under N: Acceptance to Delivery in N Hours
November 5, 2014 • Presentation
By Umashankar Velusamy (Verizon Communications, Inc.)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation describes the Under-N methodology, a framework to uncover hidden capabilities and deliver a business need in an absolute time.
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Using PSP/TSP in a Performance Review
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By Larry Whitford (Beckman Coulter), Nicole Flohr (Beckman Coulter)
This TSP Symposium 2014 presentation explores the use of PSP/TSP data in the developers' and testers' performance reviews on two TSP projects and results to date.
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Wild, Wild West—How to Corral All Your Developers into Creating Secure Code
November 4, 2014 • Presentation
By Jonathan Beck (PNC Financial Services Group)
This TSP Symposium 2014 keynote discusses the challenges facing CISOs when they are ensuring that their organizations implement secure coding practices.
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