Community Mapping Exercise (Flickr - Steven Warburton)

ethos –noun

1. Sociology. the fundamental character or spirit of a culture; the underlying sentiment that informs the beliefs, customs, or practices of a group or society; dominant assumptions of a people or period: In the Greek ethos the individual was highly valued.

1. the character or disposition of a community, group, person, etc.

So why ethos? Because to really understand and appreciate what technology can do for us, I believe we need to understand more than the technology itself; we need to understand it relative to its culture and its community. This is both the culture and community of the people who create it, as well as those who us it – after all, without people, there is no point to the technology in the first place.

This blog is about software development and creation of inspired software. It is about the technology, processes, architecture, methods (Agile and Scrum in particular), culture, creativity, innovation, and pretty much anything that I find interesting or relevant to the creation of inspired software applications.

Michael