Inheriting Essence, Keeping Integrity and Innovation

Essence: facilitating software innovation

Received: 13 August 2008 Accepted: 13 September 2008 Abstract This paper suggests ways to facilitate creativity and innovation in software development. The paper applies four perspectives – Product, Project, Process, and People – to identify an outlook for software innovation. The paper then describes a new facility – Software Innovation Research Lab (SIRL) – and a new method concept for softwa...

Essence: Facilitating Agile Innovation

This paper suggests ways to facilitate creativity and innovation in agile development. The paper applies four perspectives – Product, Project, Process, and People to identify ways to support creative software development based on agile principles. The paper then describes a new facility Software Innovation Research Lab (SIRL) and drafts a new method concept for software innovation called Essenc...

Innovation with Integrity

Extending Software Systems While Keeping Conceptual Integrity

Design and analysis of software systems in terms of their Conceptual Integrity is a demanding task. Nonetheless, progress has been made in recent years and actual software systems in practical use, such as Git, have been analyzed. In this work we make a further first step within the conceptual analysis approach, by asking how to extend software systems by addition of further components while ke...

Inheriting Losers

We show that new managers who take over mutual fund portfolios sell off inherited momentum losers at higher rates than stocks in any other momentum decile, even after adjusting for concurrent trades in these stocks by continuing fund managers. This behavior is observed regardless of fund characteristics and is stronger when new managers are external hires. The tendency of continuing fund manage...