In the An Hour of Innovation podcast episode featuring Ivan Gekht, CEO of Gehtsoft, the focus is on TRIZ — a systematic method born in the USSR for tackling complex problems and driving real innovation. Key insights from Ivan’s journey: * TRIZ turns contradictions into solutions — spotting and leveraging opposing forces
In a recent Ticker News feature on Agile Project Management, the usual success story unfolds: faster delivery, better communication, and improved alignment between IT and business. But as Gehtsoft CEO Ivan Gekht often says: “Transformation is easy to declare—and easy to fake. Commitment is harder.” At Gehtsoft, we’ve
In its recent guide to the Product Backlog, Plaky breaks down the what and why of one of Agile’s core artifacts. But as Gehtsoft CEO Ivan Gekht often reminds teams—it’s not the format that matters. It’s the thinking behind it. “A backlog is a living hypothesis
In this episode of Developers Rising, Gehtsoft CEO Ivan Gekht joins the conversation on how developers can build careers that endure—even thrive—in economic downturns. Ivan brings the same clarity he applies to high-stakes software architecture to the question of personal strategy: “What makes you irreplaceable isn’t tools—
AI coding tools promise velocity, but often deliver noise. In a sobering CIO.com piece, researchers found that many devs aren’t actually gaining much from coding assistants—at least not in the ways that matter most: productivity, correctness, or architectural soundness. Gehtsoft CEO Ivan Gekht has been vocal about
In a recent Dev.to feature on Business Agility in the Modern World, Gehtsoft CEO Ivan Gekht unpacked a crucial distinction: agility isn’t about speed alone—it’s about structural resilience and the ability to re-align fast under pressure. Ivan points out that agility in high-stakes environments comes from
