Managing Creativity For Software Development Teams

The term “creativity” is not strictly defined. In general, it is a capability to produce something innovative, original and worthwhile. It involves the following processes:

becoming sensitive to gaps in knowledge, deficiencies, missing elements, disharmonies, problems, and so on;
identifying the difficulty;
searching for solutions, making guesses, or formulating hypotheses about the deficiencies: testing and retesting these hypotheses and possibly modifying and retesting them;
getting to a solution that was not available before; that usually involves an insight at some point;
and finally communicating the results.

There is no widely accepted theory of the creativity except for the phenomenological descriptions so far.

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Report from the Norwegian-Ukrainian Investment Conference in Oslo

SoftElegance participated at Norwegian-Ukrainian ICT & Investment Conference

Norwegian-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce together with IKT-Norge, European Business Association (EBA) and Seed Forum has organized “Norwegian-Ukrainian ICT & Investment Conference” in Oslo, on November 11th 2015.

Norwegian-Ukrainian Investment Conference

SoftElegance used this opportunity to get the updates from the distinguished international and domestic speakers about Ukraine, the political situation, investment climate and opportunities there, and ICT experiences of Norwegian companies in Ukraine.

SoftElegance at Norwegian-Ukrainian ICT Conference

It was nice to meet partners, colleagues, and leads. See you next time!

Report from the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Houston

SoftElegance participated as an exhibitor at SPE ATCE 2015, Houston, TX

The Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition is the flagship event of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, takes place 28-30 September 2015 in Houston, TX. This premier event in oil and gas exploration and production covers the upstream aspects of conventional and unconventional resources from across the globe.

SoftElegance, company that specializes in a custom software development for oil and gas companies, participated with the booth and presented its expertise in sophisticated software solutions development, custom business processes automation software development, and SaaS systems development.

SoftElegance SPE ATCE Houston 2015 SoftElegance’s booth at SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Houston, September 2015

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SoftElegance’s employee received a certificate “Data Visualization” from University of Illinois

SoftElegance’s employee received certificate in Big Data area from the leading U.S. University

SoftElegance’s employee Serhii K. received the certificate about successful graduating online course “Data Visualization” from University of Illinois, on August 24, 2015.

The course is about to learn to present data to an observer in a way that yields insight and understanding. It introduces graphics programming, focusing primarily on two-dimensional vector graphics and the programming platforms for graphics. This infrastructure includes lessons on the human side of visualization, human perception and cognition to gain a better understanding of the target of the data visualization.

SoftElegance's employee gets the certificate Data Visualization University of Illinois applied to Big Data industry — SoftElegance’s employee gets the certificate Data Visualization from University of Illinois, applied to Big Data industry

The event itself is general – studying well and gets certificates after successful finishing the courses. It’s a normal situation. But Serhii tells us about the additional feature of such studying – getting additional knowledge in Big Data industry and learning English.

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European Business Association welcomes SoftElegance as a new member

SoftElegance has joined the EBA (European Business Association), the largest association of businesses

On Monday July 27, 2015, the EBA Board made an official decision on SoftElegance’s accession as a NEW EBA MEMBER! SoftElegance is proud to join the 2 million employees of EBA member-companies who share European values.

European Business Association

The EBA is focused on the implementation, promotion and advancement of European values-driven business practices. We are looking forward for a fruitful and long-term collaboration!

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Meet SoftElegance at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition in Houston

SoftElegance become an exhibitor at the SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, 28-30 September, Houston, TX

Feel free to visit SoftElegance at booth # 3058.

The SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE), the flagship event of the Society of Petroleum Engineers, takes place 28-30 September 2015 at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, USA. This premier event in oil and gas exploration and production covers the upstream aspects of conventional and unconventional resources from across the globe.

SoftElegance is a custom software development outsourcing company for sophisticated business software development across oil and gas industry.

ATCE is also SPE’s annual meeting of members and will feature groundbreaking papers and special technical events designed to accelerate the application of innovations in every technical discipline. Attendees come from around the world to ATCE to keep up with the latest technologies, industry best practices, and new product launches.

Please contact us to schedule a meeting during the exhibition.

Report from Oslo. SoftElegance’s business meeting “The Future Of Custom Software Development”

The business meeting “The Future Of Custom Software Development” was held by SoftElegance in Norway

The business meeting “The Future Of Custom Software Development” was held by SoftElegance at the Embassy premises in Oslo on the 21 of April.
The event was supported by the Embassy of Ukraine to the Kingdom of Norway and the Norwegian Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce.

The representatives of Oil and Gas companies and companies which serve that kind of business were invited to know more about how to enhance business processes using custom software development.

The following participants attended the business meeting:
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Report from IT Outsourcing Forum. SoftElegance’s presentation “Big Data – The Future Of Software Development”, Berlin 2015

SoftElegance sponsored the ITO & BPO Germany Forum and presented “Big Data – The Future Of Software Development” session

23 of April 2015 SoftElegance participated as a sponsor and speakers at the ITO & BPO Germany Forum, the only international industry event in Germany that focuses on onshoring and nearshoring services preferred and shows opportunities to optimize these existing models and solutions.

SoftElegance at IT Outsourcing Forum Gernamy

The speakers are Andrii Stolbov, CEO of SoftElegance, who has founded the company in 1993, with the specialization in custom software development, mainly of sophisticated business software, and Andrii Starzhinsky, VP of Marketing, who joined the company more than 5 years ago, with the aim to provide innovative software development outsourcing services to German speaking countries, the Netherlands and Scandinavian markets. Both speakers are currently researching Big Data challenges, and practical aspects of implementing the new technologies at custom applications and Enterprise.

SoftElegance Big Data at Outsourcing Association

Big data market is estimated up to 40 billions of Euro, according to IDC through 2018. Till 2020 it would create 4.4 millions of IT jobs internationally. And the volume of business data, across all companies, doubles every 15 months. Every day it generated 2.5 exabytes of information, or 2.5 Millions of Terabytes.

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SoftElegance sponsored the ITO & BPO Germany Forum, April 2015, Berlin

SoftElegance announcement its sponsorship of IT Outsourcing Forum in Germany

SoftElegance become a ‘level B’ sponsor of the ITO & BPO Germany Forum that will be held in Berlin at 23th of April 2015. The ITO & BPO GERMANY FORUM is organized by the independent, non-profit German Outsourcing Association.

As a member of the German Austria and Switzerland Outsourcing Association, SoftElegance is proudly taking the responsibility and honor to sponsor IT Outsourcing forum.

softelegance sponsored the ito and bpo germany forum april 2015 berlin

This is the only international event for the ITO & BPO industry in Germany, to exchange best practices, get information about destinations and business models. We are looking forward to meet with you at IT Outsourcing Germany Forum — 23 April in Berlin.

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SoftElegance invites to the business meeting “Big Data – The Future Of Software Development” in Oslo on 21 April 2015

SoftElegance invites you to attend the business meeting “The Future Of Custom Software Development” in Oslo

With the support of Embassy of Ukraine to the Kingdom of Norway and Norwegian Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce.

The business meeting will be held by SoftElegance at the Embassy premises at Arbins Gate 4, 0253 Oslo, Norway from 9:00 to 12:00 on the 21th of April of 2015;

Business Meeting "Big Data - the future of software development" in Oslo — Business Meeting “Big Data – the future of software development” in Oslo

More information about the meeting available at:

— Official event’s website;
— Official announcement by Norwegian Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce;
— Online registration.

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