A study of reported practical experiences about TSP implementations

This work studies, from several cases, the implementation degree of TSP (Team Software Process) which exists in academic and business organizations. The analysis is made from different points of view, studying their weaknesses and strengths. Many of these cases studied show the improvement achieved after the implementation of TSP in an organization, but they do not explain exactly in which aspects the improvement is achieved. Moreover, data presented on the reports do not have sufficient formality, reliability or scientific rigour. So, this work has collected and analyzed published cases of study and it provides to the software engineering community, specially to the TSP community, a set of recommendations to improve the publication of cases of study in the future. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.