The Consensual Assessment Technique evaluates a product’s creativity by inviting qualified experts to judge it. Teresa Amabile coined the term in 1988. section 1.2
What gets judged?
For programmers, the judged product might be a clever algorithm, an invented design pattern, or an entire application. An episode of America’s Got Talent offers a playful analogy: performance judges collectively assess creative work. section 1.2
Keep the method’s scope clear:
- Assessing the product does not reveal whether its development process was creative; creative processes can produce poor results, while conventional processes can produce creative products. section 1.2
