Innovation and software testing is about the unknown – deal with it!
[ The Biggest Obstacle to Innovation? You. | May 11, 2012 | HBR blogs by Leonard A. Schlesinger, Charles F. Kiefer, and Paul B. Brown ]
when you are leading innovation, the world is anything but predictable. You are creating something that has never existed before and so you simply don’t know how the world is going to react. By definition, innovation deals with the unknown.
And that’s why you are the biggest problem when it comes to innovation. If you keep using prediction reasoning in situations that are simply not predictable, you’re bound to be disappointed and frustrated.
You need a different way of thinking.
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