Business Environment Determines Degree of Team's Innovation

by Erik Stein

Imagine, for a moment, that you have an integrated team that is to build some software product. This team includes all the necessary stakeholders to define, assess, and refine the product; it contains the people who understand the need and have all the required skill sets and tools to accomplish the task. Call this the A Team. The A Team might be creative and highly innovative. Or not. What makes the difference? Whether the team uses an agile or a waterfall process? Whether the team uses Java or C#? No. The difference is in the surrounding business environment, the business model itself, and the culture created and sustained by management. The software development practices per se do not determine the creativity or innovativeness of the team.

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Business Environment Determines Degree of Team's InnovationThu May 01 08:20:13 CDT 2008