program selection system

Not everyone is lucky enough to work at one of the top twenty innovative companies. The tendency in our world is to go towards short-term solutions that guarantee mediocrity but get the job done. This experience report tells the story of one software product team that delivered three products. As the team embarked on each new product we realized that pressures from schedule, feature sets, recruiting, and cost were going to be a part of the challenge. But we learned that despite all of the pressures we could inject innovation.