Watts Humphrey

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Watts Humphrey is a key thinker in the discipline of the management of software development.

Humphrey wrote the books Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and Managing the Software Process (SPM) and was a member of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Humphrey was previously a Vice President at IBM and founded the Software Process program in SEI. He introduced the disciplines of the Personal Software Process (PSP) and the Team Software Process (TSP). The Watts Humphrey Software Quality Institute in Chennai, India is named after him.

In 2005, Watts Humphrey was awarded the National Medal of Technology. (Press Release)

In the late 1960s, Humphrey headed the IBM software team that introduced the first software license.