TIME-ORIENTED
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (TOSD):
Concept & open source license
Time-Oriented Software Development (TOSD) is a social technology that brings time-orientation firmly into the realm of software development. Created by Niels Pflaeging and Sebastian Kubsch, it builds upon the BetaCodex and incorporates six specific characteristics outlined in our 2025 research paper.
​TOSD possesses its own open CC-BY-SA 4.0 source license (see below). By the terms of the license, you are free to use TOSD in your work (also commercially), and you are obliged to consistently refer to the open source license when using the approach, its visuals or components.​
Referring to TOSD in the correct manner is to your own advantage: Referring to TOSD in a consistent way helps spreading the word about the TOSD approach, and it identifies you as knowledgeable with peers and clients. It also contributes to making consistent and sound use of TOSD more likely. Another side-effect: Referring to the open source license should promote further advancement of both time-orientation at work and Beta – conceptually and practically!
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Disclaimers
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This work is derived from the BetaCodex, an open source, free social technology, published under the CC-BY-SA license from Creative Commons and found here: betacodex.org/licence
Concept overview & Research paper
The Time-Oriented Software Development approach is a ground-breaking contribution to the agile software development universe. It is the world's first approach to consistent time-orientation in the industry, and offers a great way to combine high effectiveness in software development of all shades –returning a sense of achievement and fulfillment to software developers around the world. TOSD is also a fabulous way to get organizational development work in tech and software firms started (or done), fast.
You can download the full Time-Oriented Software Development research paper by Niels Pflaeging and Sebastian Kubsch (published by the BetaCodex Network) free of charge and free of registration. Share it and use it in your work - making the appropriate attributions (see license below). A print edition of the research paper is available from the Red42 web shop.
Open source license
Attribution ShareAlike – “CC-BY-SA”
This license lets you use, commercialize, remix, tweak, and build upon Time-Oriented Software Devleopment (TOSD). In so doing, you agree to three simple things:
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credit the original authors, Niels Pflaeging and Sebastian Kubsch,
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and provide our specified link to the source material, as listed below,
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and license your derivative creations to others under the identical terms.
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Specifically, you must provide and prominently display the following sentence and link with all derived works, and included as part of all related graphics you might develop: :
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“This work is derived from Time-Oriented Software Development, an open source, free social technology by Niels Pflaeging and Sebastian Kubsch, published under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license from Creative Commons, and found here: www.redforty2.com/tosd”
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