The Odd Couple of Creativity and Discipline

Posted February 28, 2007 | Leadership | Leadership |

Some time ago, I wrote a book called Software Creativity. In that book, I initially planned to take the position that software engineering (the development and maintenance of software products) was a field in which creativity and innovation counted for much more than discipline. I was tired of, and angered by, the claims of many in the software engineering field that the solutions to the problems of software lay in discipline, formality, and quantitative reasoning.

About The Author
Robert Glass
Robert L. Glass is President of Computing Trends, publishers of The Software Practitionernewsletter, and an Honorary Professor of Software Engineering at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Dr. Glass has been active in the field of computing and software for over 50 years, largely in industry (1954-1982 and 1988-2005), but also as an academic (1982-1988 and 2005-present). He is the author of over 25 books and 90 papers on computing… Read More
Don’t have a login? Make one! It’s free and gives you access to all Cutter research.