Software Innovation: Eight work-style heuristics for creative system developers
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Introduction
Why study software innovation?
The global perspective
The competition perspective
The developer perspective
Knowledge sources for software innovation
Software innovation - the shape of the study
Eight work-style heuristics
Innovation concepts and software development
Three basic starting places: creativity, invention, innovation
Radical and incremental innovation
Product and process innovation
Installed base (infrastructure)
Innovation and software systems
Sources and further reading:
Keep your head up: software trajectories and innovation windows
Technology and economic development
Installed base, infrastructure
Software technology trajectories
Software technology convergence
The software innovation window
Work-style heuristic 1 - keep your head up
Sources and further reading:
Grow your community: network, knowledge, learning
Virtual innovation community: the open source movement
Open innovation
Work-style heuristic 2 - grow your knowledge community
Sources and further reading:
Target the product’s innovation profile: innovative software
Characteristics of innovative software products
Utility - hierarchies of technical systems
Incremental and radical innovation
Utility forms
Innovation utility form 1: computing infrastructural
Innovation example: TCP/IP (1973-8)
Innovation utility form 2: technology enabling
Innovation example: Copenhagen metro
Innovation utility form 3: user service
Innovation example: Skype
Innovation utility form 4: business change enabling
Innovation example: SAP (ERP system)
Innovation utility form 5: interaction and communication
Innovation example: Facebook.
Innovation utility form 6: entertainment
Innovation example: World of Warcraft
Work-style heuristic 3 - target your product’s innovation profile
Sources and further reading:
Shape your own process: software process and innovation
Software development method – innovation is not a typical goal
Linear innovation in industry
The software innovation life cycle model
Iterative software innovation process models
Do agile methods promote innovation?
Market-led and technology-led software innovation
Improvisation, bricolage
Six innovation process strategies
Innovation process strategy 1: creative requirements analysis
Innovation process strategy 2: designed process framework
Innovation process strategy 3: low tech prototyping
Innovation process strategy 4: user-driven software innovation
Innovation process strategy 5: community development and the open source model
Innovation process strategy 6: research prototype
Software process innovation
The global picture
The local picture
Work-style heuristic 4 - Shape your own process
Sources and further reading:
Develop your personal creativity: the creative software developer
Creativity as the developer’s mental process
Creativity as a set of personal competences
Creativity as a style of thinking
Creativity as meta-thinking: recognising unconscious pre-dispositions
Creativity as whole-brain thinking: beyond rationality
Creativity as a state of mind
Creativity as a relationship between the developer and the outside world
Creativity as a universal mental skill to be enhanced
Work-style heuristic 5 - develop your personal creativity
Sources and further reading
Be a super-team-worker: the innovative software team
Creative/innovative work environments: barriers
Group dysfunction
Innovative team roles:
Innovation team interaction
Team learning and innovation
Accommodation of divergent thinking
Expertise integration
Overview: macro + micro integration
Innovative teamwork patterns
Environmental scanning
Work-style heuristic 6 - be a super-team-worker
Sources and further reading
Bring your toolbox: creativity tools and techniques
Creativity tools
Characteristics of applications supporting creativity
A software support toolbox
Creativity techniques
A starting repertoire of creativity techniques for software development
Brainstorming
Backward mapping
SCAMPER
Six Serving Men
Six thinking hats
Vision box
Elevator test
Work-style heuristic 7 – bring your toolbox
Sources and further reading
Know when you are (not) innovative: assessment and evaluation
Personal creativity: psychometric testing
Innovative software product assessment
Work environment assessment
Assessment overview
Here-and-now quick-and-dirty evaluation instrument
Keep your head up
Grow your knowledge community
Target your product’s innovation profile
Shape your own process
Develop your personal creativity
Be a super-team-worker
Bring your toolbox
Know when you are (not) innovative
Work-style heuristic 8 – understand when you are (not) innovative
Sources and further reading
Software innovation: eight work-style heuristics for innovative system developers
Software innovation
Eight work-style heuristics for innovative system developers
Keep your head up
Grow your knowledge community
Target your product’s innovation profile
Shape your own process
Develop your personal creativity
Be a super-team-worker
Bring your toolbox
Know when you are (not) innovative
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