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Agile is the new Taylorism

  • Writer: Tim Burns
    Tim Burns
  • Jan 5, 2021
  • 1 min read

I ran across an article in Medium that draws interesting parallels between Taylorism and modern Agile Scrum.

Tobias Higbie The Labor Age, February 1927


If you want to use Agile Scrum to kill your top developers' engagement here's how:

  • Use story points like quotas

  • Use grooming to micromanage developer workflows

  • Lock the developers out of production with vague references to some compliance standard

If you are a good manager, trust your developers and build DevOps teams, and go beyond agile.

 
 
 

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