Team Software Process (TSP) - Framework Activities and Phases

Team Software Process (TSP) scripts define elements of the team process and the following framework activities:

- LAUNCH
It reviews course objectives and describes the TSPi structure and content. It assigns teams and roles to students and describes the customer needs statement. It also establishes team and individual goals.
- STRATEGY
It creates a conceptual design for the product and establishes the development strategy and decide what will be produced in each cycle. Strategy makes initial size and effort estimates and establish a configuration management plan, reuse plan and risk management.
- PLAN
It estimates the size of each artifact to be developed. Planning also identifies tasks to be performed, estimates time to complete each task;, assign tasks to team members, make a weekly schedule for task completion and make a quality plan.
- REQUIREMENTS
Requirements analyze need statements and interview the customers, specify and inspect the requirements and develop a system test plan.
- DESIGN
It creates a high-level design, specify the design, inspect the design, develop an integration test plan.
- IMPLEMENT
Implementation uses the PSP to implement modules/units, creates detailed design of modules/units, reviews the design, translates the design to code, review the code,
compile and test the modules/units and analyze the quality of the modules/units.
- TEST
Testing builds and integrate the system. It conducts a system test and produce user documentation.
- POSTMORTEM
It conducts a postmortem analysis, writes a cycle report and produce peer and team evaluations.

TSP makes use of a wide variety of scripts, forms, and standards that serve to guide team members in their work. Scripts defines specific process activities and other more detailed work functions that are part of the team process.
TSP recognizes that the best software teams are self directed. Team members set project objectives, adapt the process to meet their needs, have control over schedule, and through measurement and analysis of the metrics collected, work continually to improve team's approach to software engineering.

Team Software Process (TSP) - Strategy and Objectives

The goal of Team Software Process (TSP) is to build a self directed project team that organizes itself to produce high quality software. The objectives of TSP are:
- The TSP is intended to improve the levels of quality and productivity of a team's software development project.
- Using TSP, organizations establish a mature and disciplined engineering practice that produces secure, reliable software in less time and at lower costs.
- Accelerate software process improvement by making CMM level 5 behavior normal and expected.
- Show managers how to coach and motivate their teams and how to help them to sustain peak performance.
- Build self directed teams that plan and track their work, establish goals, and own their processes and plans. To form a self directed team, you must collaborate well internally and communicate well externally.

A self directed team should do the following:
- understand overall goals and objectives.
- defines roles and responsibilities for each team member.
- tracks quantitative project data.
- identifies a team process appropriate for project.
- implementing strategy for the process.
- defines local standards.
- assess risk and reacts to it.
- tracks, reports and manages project status.

TEAM SOFTWARE PROCESS (TSP) STRATEGY

- Provide a simple process framework based on the PSP.
- Use modest, well-defined problems.
- Develop products in several cycles.
- Establish standard measures for quality and performance.
- Provide detailed role definitions.
- Use role and team evaluations.
- Require process discipline.
- Provide guidance on teamwork problems.