Artifacts
of Collaborative Evolution
uImpact is maximized through a community of smart people adding increments of value (technology, understanding, explanation)
vThe “right answer” usually evolves over a long period of
time
vUsually a lot of disagreement (people “not getting it”)
in the early phases, and
a “seems really obvious” attitude after success
uUsually a low protection barrier before the community is
built
vTo “get it” early you need to be immersed in the
community
uOften preserved and taken to scale as a
“standard”—formal or informal
uOften involves a number of protectable/defensible
Artifacts of Discrete
Contribution
uExamples: The Internet & Web, Berkeley UNIX,
Window-based UI, TiVO,
TinyOS,