# PSIP-Tools
Productivity and Sustainability Improvement Planning Tools

# Productivity and Sustainability Improvement Planning (PSIP) Tools

This repository contains a collection of documents that support an iterative planning process for improving scientific software developer productivity and product sustainability through improved software practices, processes and tools.  

Documents in the repo include:
- [Overview of the PSIP process:](PSIP-Overview.md) This document provides and overview of PSIP and a step by step description of how to execute the planning process.
- [Interviewer Guide:](SoftwareTeamInterviewerGuide.md) The PSIP process starts with a team interview, where a brief sketch of a team's software activies are gathered.  This sketch serves as the foundation for subsequent practice improvement efforts.
- [Interview Template:](SoftwareTeamInterviewTemplate.md) This document contains a set of interview prompts that facilitate discusion and recording of a team's current approach to software product development.  It is written in plain language to facilitate an accessible discussion and to avoid misuse and lack of understanding that can come from using formal software engineering terms that may not be well or consistently understood.

The PSIP process is intended to gain knowledge of how a scientific software team gets it work done.  The interview process explicitly avoids the use of software engineering terminology in order to facilitate a thorough and accessible discussion.

Effective use of this tool does require some training.  Please contact Mike Heroux <maherou@sandia.gov> if you are interested in using it.

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