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Our MethodMethod to the MadnessIf you really want to understand our methods for building killer software applications you should first read Tom Peters latest business book "Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age." The software business at its very core is the business of creative destruction - creating new businesses, products, and services while destroying old ones. Questions we are frequently asked are, "Is it even possible to have a methodology for creating innovation?" "Does creating killer software applications lend itself to method and process?" Our answer to both is a resounding yes! And our answer is proven, going all the way back to Thomas Edison and his original Invention Factory. However, you probably need to rethink what the definition of process and methodology are! Edison's Invention FactoryIt had been a general belief in Edison's time that the act of invention was pure happenstance or isolated genius; one could not simply plan to invent something. Edison considered this nonsense and he demonstrated that by bringing the right people together in the right environment, world-changing inventions could be produced in a regular manner.
In 1876 Edison created a unique and innovative environment in Menlo Park, New Jersey. Edison called it the Invention Factory. He came to employ at the Invention Factory upwards of 200 people with a wide variety of specialized skills. They worked together in an open and collaborative environment. Their work, always driven with the purpose of building valuable marketable products, produced world changing new inventions at an unprecedented rate. Working in an iterative and incremental manner, Edison set a goal to produce a minor invention every ten days and a major one every six months. Edison had a method. Edison changed the world. We encourage you to rediscover the techniques Edison successfully pioneered nearly 130 years ago. Open and collaborative environments. Designing and inventing iterative and incrementally. It is possible for software development teams to produce a minor release every ten days and a major product every six months - just like Edison. This type of iterative development is the cornerstone of agile development teams. Fully embrace agile principles and you are one step closer to creating killer applications. Edison knew that the true driving force behind every invention was to provide real value to real customers. Edison wouldn't invent a product unless he was convinced that someone would buy it. He knew their willingness to buy was the measure of the utility of his invention. Learning how to meet real business needs is difficult. It is also essential. To accomplish this goal we have defined a whole new specialty called High-Tech Anthropology®. High-Tech Anthropology® defines the killer application that agile teams build. Not surprisingly, our process is producing results faster, better, and cheaper than any other process we have ever witnessed - all in the spirit of Edison's original Invention Factory. Do you want to build great software products? Do you want to dominate your markets? Then build a process that works for you, not against you.
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