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The PIPSI (Process for Improving Programming Skills in Industry) method

PIPSI is designed to be introduced by means of a specially prepared training course. None of the techniques involved in PIPSI are new or revolutionary, and most software engineers would approve of them, yet few apply them. The course is designed to introduce the techniques in a progressive fashion, and uses hands-on classroom exercises to allow engineers to become familiar with them, and to demonstrate their effectiveness. In recognition of the difficulty of releasing software professionals for long periods of time, the training is broken down into modules. The PIPSI Practitioners course teaches all the concepts and the basic techniques,and is enough to allow engineers to start using the method. Follow-up in-house training is also available which focuses on more advanced techniques for Personal Project Management and Personal Quality Management.

For a detailed description of the PIPSI method click here

Download PIPSI Resources

The IPSSI consortium has decided to make both PIPSI training materials and the TIPSI tool available to all.

• To download the PIPSI for Managers course click here
• To download the PIPSI for Practitioners course click here
• To download the TIPSI tool click here

IPSSI related publications

• "PIPSI - The Results of a 2 Year SPI Experiment", R.O'Connor & G.Coleman, To appear in Proceedings of European Software Process Improvement Conference (EuroSPI 2001), Limerick, Ireland, October 2001.
• "Individual Software Process Improvement - Does Europe Need It?", R.O'Connor & G.Coleman, Proceedings of 12th European Software Control and Metrics conference, London, April 2001.
• "The Importance of a Quality Process in Software Development", R.O'Connor & H.Duncan, The Engineers Journal, The Institution of Engineers of Ireland, May 2001
• "Software Process Improvement Education - A European Experiment", R.O'Connor, G.Coleman & M.Morisio, Proceedings of 6th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, ACM Press, ISBN 1-58113-330-8, 2001.
• "Improving Professional Software Skills in Industry - A Training Experiment", R.O'Connor, H.Duncan, G.Coleman, M.Morisio, C.McGowan, C.Mercier & Y.Wang, Technical Report CA-0201, Dublin City University, 2001. Postscript of paper
• "A Tool to Support the Capture of Individual Process Data",R.O’Connor, H.Duncan, G.Coleman, M.Escalante, C.McGowan, D.Escala, M.Morisio, C.Mercier & Y.Wang, Proceedings of EuroSPI'2000, Copenhagen, Denmark , November 2000. PDF of paper
• "Improving individual software engineering skills",G.Coleman, M.Escalante, C.McGowan, D.Escala, M.Morisio, C.Mercier, R.O’Connor, H.Duncan & Y.Wang, Proceedings of EuroSPI'2000, Copenhagen, Denmark , November 2000.
• "Optimising the software process at the individual level", G.Coleman, R.O'Connor & H.Duncan, Proceedings of Conference on Views on Software Development in the new Millennium, Reykjavik, Iceland, September 2000. PDF of paper
• "Power to the Programmer - Using measurement to optimise the software process at the individual level",G.Coleman & R.O'Connor, In Proceedings of 11th European Software Control and Metrics conference, Munich, Germany, April 2000. PDF of paper
• "IPSSI: An European methodology on PSP",Y. Wang & H. Duncan, In Proceedings of EuroSPI'99, Pori, Finland, October 1999.

IPSSI Deliverables (Restricted Access)

• Click here for deliverables page (private to consortium)

For more information

For more information about the IPSSI project or any other aspect of PIPSI training, contact the PIPSI co-ordinator Howard Duncan at:

	email: pipsi@computing.dcu.ie
	Phone: +353 - 1 - 700 5237
	Fax:   +353 - 1 - 700 5442
	Web:   www.computing.dcu.ie/ipssi

Page maintained by Rory O'Connor. Last updated on 11 July 2001