Power to the programmer using measurement to optimise the software process at the individual level

With over a decade of Software Process Improvement (SPI) in large organisations, the awareness of its importance has propagated to Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs). The most well known models for SPI are primarily suited for largeor medium-sized organisations, but with some tailoring they can provide substantial support for SPI in small organisations. The IPSSI (Improving Professional Software Skills in Europe) project aims to address the problems above and provide a process improvement framework for use by individual software engineers working in European SMEs. This paper describes the architecture of the IPSSI project. In particular it details experiences to date with end user trials of IPSSI SPI training material and the development of the IPSSI tool set which consists of data gathering and data analysis tools, which have been implemented in an web-based environment.