Putting the Personal Software Process/sup SM/ into practice

The purpose of the workshop is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the PSP/sup SM/ for software process improvement and how PSP brought it about. Presenters from industry describe how PSP was introduced into their company and what has happened since introduction. They present data to show the benefits of PSP for their software process. Presenters from academia describe how they have introduced PSP into their courses. The goals of the workshop are to demonstrate that PSP can be adopted and can be effective in different industrial settings and to describe how it can be introduced into academic courses.