Software affects almost every aspect of our daily lives and our businesses.
Software development dominates the plans of many businesses.
Software development cycle time is growing and is often longer than hardware turnaround time. Software defects in fielded systems have had serious effects on businesses and society. The new world of software will require a new management style. To get quality products, they must learn to manage the quality of the processes that their engineers use. Personal Software Process SM is an SEI technology that brings discipline to the practices of individual software engineers, dramatically improving product quality, increasing cost and schedule predictability, and reducing development cycle time for software.