Managing Technical People : Innovation, Teamwork and the Software Process

Humphrey, Watts S.

ISBN 10: 0201545977 / ISBN 13: 9780201545975

Published by Pearson Education, Limited, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Managing Technical People : Innovation, Teamwork and the Software Process
• Publisher: Pearson Education, Limited
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201545977
• ISBN 13: 9780201545975
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Well-known author and long-time manager Watts Humphrey offers keen insight into the special challenge of identifying, motivating, and organizing creative technical people, and the opportunities involved in managing these people.

About the Author

Known as “the father of software quality,” Watts S. Humphrey is the author of numerous influential books on the software-development process and software process improvement. 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 Maturity Model (CMM). He also is the creator of the Personal Software Process (PSP) and Team Software Process (TSP). Recently, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology—the highest honor given by the president of the United States to America's leading innovators.