Discussion Questions and Projects

1.	"A new idea is worth a dollar, but a new idea and a development plan to bring it to market is worth a million dollars." Discuss.
2.	Why do you think Altschuller's work was rejected in the USSR but widely accepted in the United States?
3.	Take a software problem you have already solved innovatively, and map it through the TRIZ process shown in Figure 12.1 in a pro forma manner. Did you instinctively apply TRIZ principles?
4.	Take one of the failed analogies from Review Question 4, and try to make it work. If software is a mechanism in the abstract sense, why doesn't a mechanical analogue work? How could you make it work?