Discovery & Delivery – On Innovation, Software Product Management and Productivity

Previous articles in this blog have looked at the usage of metrics for measuring software developer productivity and software delivery perfo...

By far the greatest flow of newness is not innovation at all. Rather, it is  imitation .   —  Theodore Levitt   When a company — for the fi...

The 2021 study " Creativity myths: Prevalence and correlates of misconceptions on creativity " tries to  separate facts from ficti...

In a recent interview Dr. Deepak Chopra made the following statement: " Creativity is a spiritual experience, not a mental experience....

In the  How To Measure Software Delivery Using DORA Metrics (YouTube)  presentation, Dave Farley, author of "Continuous Delivery" ...

"When a measure becomes a target,  it ceases to be a good measure."   ― Goodhart's Law   Traditional research presentations su...

Here are my key takeaways from the 2019 book  Rethinking Productivity in Software Engineering (edited by Caitlin Sadowski and Thomas Zimmer...