Personal and Team Processes

ByWalter Wimberly

Software doesn’t write itself, yet, and despite some people’s attempts. Therefore any process model needs to consider the individuals and teams that will be working on the project.

The company must be willing and able to adapt and adopt a process model mindset if they are going to be successful. If they do not, they will have issues.

“A person who is successful has simply formed the habit of doing things, that unsuccessful people will not do.”

Dexter Yager

Team Software Process

Most software projects are addressed by a team, not individual work, that’s why the TSP was created.

The Objective of TSP is:

  • Build self directed teams that can plan and direct their work
  • Show managers how to coach and motivate their teams
  • Accelerate software process improvement by making CMM Level 5 normal
  • Provide improvement guidance
  • Facilitate university teaching of industrial-grade team skills

Personal and Team Processes was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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