68. Predicting Innovation
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The team balances its need for innovation with its employer’s need for predictability.
If the systems you build are at all interesting, then you know that innovation is part of every project. Innovation means that your team will be doing something it hasn’t done before, and that the success of the effort depends upon your people solving problems in new and different ways. At the same time, you are nearly always required to predict, with a reasonable level of accuracy, when you will be finished. This puts you in the business of predicting the arrival of good ideas, and that is not easy.
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