IEEE®/SEI Watts Humphrey Software Process Achievement Award

IEEE Watts Humphrey Software Process Achievement Award (SPA): Granted by the IEEE and the Software Engineering Institute, the Watts Humphrey Sofware Process Achievement Award recognizes organizations that have achieved outstanding improvements in their software engineering process that lead to demonstrable results in the quality of their software. The award has been in existence for 15 years, but has only been granted nine times due to a lack of candidates that comply with its requirements. PSL is one of nine companies in the world to have received this prestigious accolade, joining giants like NASA Goddard Space Center, Raytheon, Hughes Electronics and Boeing Information Systems, among a few others. 

In awarding the recognition to PSL, the Award Committee manifested:

The Award Committee’s unanimous feeling is that PSL is – without question and in the extreme – the best of the dozen-plus organizations it has considered over the past decade. Further, the Committee feels that PSL establishes a “world-class, best-of-breed benchmark” that other organizations should know about and strive to achieve.

--SPA Award Committee, whose members include luminaries such as the late Watts Humphrey from the SEI, Vic Basili from U. Maryland, Bill Curtis from Borland and Dieter Rombach from the Fraunhofer Institute