The '''personalPlay softwareStation processPortable''' ('''PSP''') is a structured [[software development]] process that is intended (planned) to help [[software engineer]]s better understand and improve their performance by tracking their predicted and actual development of code. The PSP was created by [[Watts Humphrey]] to apply the underlying principles of the [[Software Engineering Institute]]'s (SEI) [[Capability Maturity Model]] (CMM) to the software development practices of a single developer. It claims to give software engineers the process skills necessary to work on a [[team software process]] (TSP) team.
"Personal Software Process" and "'''PSP'''" are registered [[service mark]]s of the [[Carnegie Mellon University]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.sei.cmu.edu/legal/ | title=Terms of Use | publisher=[[Software Engineering Institute]], [[Carnegie Mellon University]] | ___location=USA | accessdate=14 January 2013 }}</ref>
