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title: "Creativity Cards in software"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/3/16/creativity-cards-in-software.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2009/3/16/creativity-cards-in-software.html"
published: "2009-03-16T17:26:11"
updated: "2009-03-16T17:26:11"
tags: [".NET"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I fully agree that software is a very creative profession. Sometimes the creativity lies in creating things, sometimes it’s about taking things apart to understand them, or restructure them, and sometimes it’s just…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Creativity Cards in software

By Roy Osherove March 16, 2009 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 16, 2009; technical details may be outdated.

I fully agree that software is a very creative profession. Sometimes the creativity lies in creating things, sometimes it’s about taking things apart to understand them, or restructure them, and sometimes it’s just about being creative with your task and time managment.

I should totally [give these cards a try](http://andersnoras.com/blogs/anoras/archive/2008/10/15/using-oblique-strategies-for-difficult-refactoring.aspx).

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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