watts humphrey watts s humphrey july 4 1927 october 28 2010 was an american pioneer in software engineering who was called the father of software quality biography watts humphrey whose grandfather and father also had the same name was born in battle creek michigan on july 4 1927 his uncle was us secretary of the treasury george m humphrey in 1944 he graduated from high school and served in the united states navy despite dyslexia he received a bachelor of science in physics from the university of chicago a master of science in physics from illinois institute of technology physics department and a master of business administration from the university of chicago graduate school of business in 1953 he went to boston and worked at sylvania labs in 1959 he joined ibm in the late 1960s humphrey headed the ibm software team that introduced the first software license humphrey was a vice president at ibm in the 1980s at the software engineering institute sei at carnegie mellon university humphrey founded the software process program and served as director of that program from 1986 until the early 1990s this program was aimed at understanding and managing the software engineering process because this is where big and small organizations or individuals encounter the most serious difficulties and where thereafter lies the best opportunity for significant improvement the program resulted in the development of the capability maturity model published in 1989 in humphreys managing the software process humphrey received an honorary doctor of software engineering from the embryriddle aeronautical university in 1998 the watts humphrey software quality institute in chennai india was named after him in 2000 in 2003 humphrey was awarded the national medal of technology humphrey became a fellow of the sei and of the association for computing machinery in 2008 personal software process psp software quality team software process tsp publications humphrey is the author of several books including 2011 leadership teamwork and trust building a competitive software capability addisonwesley reading ma 2010 reflections on management how to manage your software projects your teams your boss and yourself addisonwesley reading ma 2006 tsp coaching development teams addisonwesley reading ma 2006 tsp leading a development team addisonwesley reading ma 2005 psp a selfimprovement process for software engineers addisonwesley reading ma 2001 winning with software an executive strategy addisonwesley reading ma 1999 introduction to the team software process addisonwesley reading ma 1997 introduction to the personal software process addisonwesley reading ma 1996 managing technical people innovation teamwork and software process addisonwesley reading ma 1995 a discipline for software engineering addisonwesley reading ma 1989 managing the software process addisonwesley reading ma pittsburgh postgazette obituary the watts new collection columns by the seis watts humphrey vtesoftware engineeringfields computer programming requirements engineering software deployment software design software maintenance software testing systems analysis formal methods concepts data modeling enterprise architecture functional specification modeling language orthogonality programming paradigm software software archaeology software architecture software configuration management software development methodology software development process software quality software quality assurance software verification and validation structured analysis orientations agile aspectoriented object orientation ontology service orientation sdlc modelsdevelopmental agile eup executable uml incremental model iterative model prototype model rad up scrum spiral model vmodel waterfall model xp other spice cmmi data model er model function model information model metamodeling object model systems model view model languages idef uml usl sysml softwareengineers victor basili kent beck grady booch fred brooks barry boehm peter chen danese cooper ward cunningham tom demarco edsger w dijkstra delores m etter martin fowler adele goldstine margaret hamilton c a r hoare lois haibt mary jean harrold grace hopper watts humphrey michael a jackson ivar jacobson alan kay nancy leveson stephen j mellor bertrand meyer david parnas trygve reenskaug winston w royce james rumbaugh mary shaw peri tarr elaine weyuker niklaus wirth edward yourdon related fields computer science computer engineering project management risk management systems engineering category commons authority control worldcat identities acm dl 81100017667 dblp 631672 gnd 170295540 isni 0000 0001 1497 0380 lccn n86140544 ndl 00468670 sudoc 07505213x viaf 110037571 