Towards Innovative Software Projects – Creating Environments Supporting Innovation and Improvement

Abstract

Immaterial labour, which is a sociological concept proposed by Maurizio Lazzarato and others for understanding today's post-Fordism industry, refers to the process of producing the informational and cultural contents of a commodity. Through examining software development and the softwareintensive society with the lens of immaterial labour, this paper aims to consider about establishing a new conceptual framework to promote innovation in actual software development projects. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011.