, Mohamed Abu Elsoud

Abstract — Software organizations differ from other manufacturing organizations, since these software organizations depend mainly on individuals and team works rather than machines or raw materials. Enhancing individuals and team works capabilities is the key solution to improve quality and productivity levels. Hence, Individual engineers need a quality improvement technique to improve their performance by bringing discipline to the way they develop software and manage their work to produce quality products within budget and on schedule. This paper will propose a case study showing the application and evaluation of the Personal Software Process (PSP), which recommends applying some skills and methods that concerns the individual engineer her/himself, like understating the meaning of work quality, and how to estimate time and effort in order to be able to make the right project plans which contain some estimated data that are close to the actual data. Hence, in our study, PSP will focus on two principles, improving individuals’ productivity, and products and process quality