Agile software teams must be creatives

Author

Crawford, Broderick ; De la Barra, Claudio Léon ; Soto, Ricardo ; Monfroy, Eric

Author_Institution

Pontificia Univ. Catolica de Valparaiso, Valparaiso, Chile

fYear

2012

fDate

2-4 May 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

An increasing number of organizations are trending to teams for innovation and creativity. In Software Engineering it is the same, in the last years the traditional perspective on software development is changing and Agile methods have received considerable attention. Among other attributes, the agilists claim that fostering Creativity is one of the keys to response to common problems and challenges of software development today. The development of new software products requires the generation of novel and useful ideas. Here, we fixed some concepts from Knowledge Management and Creativity in relation with new Software Engineering trends.

Keywords

innovation management; knowledge management; software prototyping; team working; agile software teams; creative team; creativity; innovation; knowledge management; software engineering; software products; Context; Organizations; Planning; Programming; Software; Teamwork; Technological innovation; Agile Methodologies; Creativity; New Products Development; Software Development; eXtreme Programming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering Applications (WEA), 2012 Workshop on

Conference_Location

Bogota

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0871-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WEA.2012.6220093

Filename

6220093