Has a software development innovation in your organization significantly improved other areas of product software development?
In his third installment of the Innovation in Software Development Executive Update series, Senior Consultant E.M. Bennatan discussed if innovation has spread to other areas of product software development. "An overwhelming 83% of survey respondents report that either their organization has not introduced innovation into 'other' non-key areas of development, or they were unaware whether it had been done. If we speculate that developers are generally aware of significant changes in their organization, particularly in development, then innovation would appear to have been concentrated in key areas and neglected in other areas." With this insight, Bennatan concludes, "This conclusion supports the notion that software organizations should invest effort in the nontraditional areas for innovation, the potentially "neglected areas." This would likely be where opportunities for payback are most commonly missed."
* Excerpted from "Innovation in Software Development: Part III -- How to Build an Innovative Organization" (
) by E.M. Bennatan, Agile Product and Project Management Executive Update, Vol. 11, No. 22