Introduction to the Team Software Process or The Industrial Revolution

Introduction to the Team Software Process

Author: Watts S Humphrey

Watts Humphrey is the visionary behind the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)(R) and the Personal Software Process (PSP) (sm). The CMM contains a framework for software process improvement at the organizational level. The PSP builds the self-discipline needed for individual programmers to work efficiently and effectively. The author's new Team Software Process (TSP) (sm) details methods to guide the formation of software development teams, to motivate their work, and to enhance their productivity. This book describes an introductory version of TSP, ideal for smaller projects but also useful for learning basic techniques and procedures that apply to other development projects. Methods presented include:

• how to establish roles;
• how to conceive, design, and plan a project;
• how to track and report on progress.

The book walks readers through a complete development cycle, illustrating:

• how best to use the talents at hand;
• how to formulate well-defined goals;
• how to coordinate activities for maximum progress;
• how to promote effective communication;
• how to alleviate many of the conflicts that undermine teamwork.

Team members should not have to expend valuable time and energy reinventing ways to organize and run their team. By following a proven process, the team will more quickly be able to focus on the successful completion of the project itself. To help a team course apply these methods, the book provides two project exercises, with prescribed development goals and team roles.

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Details methods to guide the formation of software development teams, to motivate their work, and to enhance their productivity. Describes an introductory version of Team Software process (TSP), ideal for smaller projects but also useful in learning basic techniques and procedures that apply to other development projects. Tells how to establish roles, plan a project, and track and report on progress, and walks through a complete development cycle, illustrating how to promote communication and how to deal with conflicts. Provides two project exercises with prescribed development goals and team roles. For students and engineers who have already learned the author's Personal Software Process (PSP). The author is a senior manager of software development at IBM, and a Fellow at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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The Industrial Revolution

Author: Steven M Beaudoin

A volume in the Problems in European Civilization series, this book features a collection of secondary-source essays that focus on various aspects of the Industrial Revolution. This text takes a broad view of industrialization, looking at countries other than England and examining causation back to the 16th century.

Table of Contents:

Contents

• Chronology
• Reference Maps
• I. Defining the Industrial Revolution
  David S. Landes, The Unbound Prometheus
  William H. Sewell, Jr., Work and Revolution in France
  E.A. Wrigley, Continuity, Chance, and Change
  Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson, Rehabilitating the Industrial Revolution

  II. The Origins and Nature of Industrialization

  Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches

  Nathan Rosenberg and L.E. Birdzell, Jr., How the West Grew Rich

  Robert S. DuPlessis, Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

  Jan De Vries, The Industrial Revolution and the Industrious Revolution

  III. Sites of Industrialization

  Joel Mokyr, The Industrial Revolution and the New Economic History

  Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence

  Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective

  Paul M. Hohenberg and Lynn Hollen Lees, The Making of Urban Europe, 1000–1950

  IV. Class Formation and Work Experience

  Ira Katznelson, Working-Class Formation

  Stephen Nicholas and Richard H. Steckel, Heights and Living Standards of English Workers During the Early Years of Industrialization, 1770–1815

  E.P. Thompson, Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism

  Michael B. Miller, The Bon Marché

  V. Gender, Family, and Class

  Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott, Women, Work and Family

  Elinor Accampo, Industrialization, Family Life, and Class Relations: Saint Chamond, 1815–1914

  Lenore Davidoff and Catherine Hall, Family Fortunes

  Sonya O. Rose, LimitedLivelihoods