Essence: Facilitating Agile Innovation
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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 Essence. Finally the paper reports from an early discovery experiment using SIRL and Essence and identifies further research.
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