Being creative is seeing the same things as everybody else but thinking of something different
I was involved in an debate/argument about the creativity at workplace. The whole argument took shape on the fact that some company is micro managing it’s programmers activites which results logging how he/she spent every minute in an office. It seems this data is used to judge the productivity of the programmer.
My view point on the process of micro managing was negative. How can an intellectual activity like software programming can be judged by stopwatch. I was offered an argument saying software development is not a creative/intellectual activity. So it is fine to measure performance based to stopwatch. Holy crap!
Being a programmer, I realise the entire software development is a creative activity. Programmer need to be creative in every step right from knowing about the problem, requirement, design, testing phase etc. How can one measure ones productivity for activity like this using a stop watch? One more argument that I hear that software jobs do not require creative people. Pray what kind of people need to be in programming activity? The main point put forward by the opposition is that now a days there are better tools, better documentation that the programmer need not be creative. The idea that you can be dumb if you have smart tools is repulsive to me.
I am programmer and I know that my job requires me to be creative. There ends the argument.
Being ‘Creative’ in Software Development
SKB 
Comments