“Behavioral scientists will tell you that in the animal
kingdom–which includes Homo sapiens–truly altruistic behavior is
extremely rare, if it exists at all. Yet even behavior motivated by
self-interest can work for the public good. There’s a cadre of
historians who believes that the framers of the U.S. Constitution
wrote it to protect their own landed interests, for example, yet
few would deny that it worked out pretty well for the rest of
us.“Like those original framers, software vendor Niku also supplies
a management and governance tool, but this one is digital and
targeted at IT. Earlier this month, Niku announced a free, open
source version of Workbench, the project management component for
its Clarity server suite….”