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Farewell, Taylorism.

I was honored to be invited by Ross Chayka and the team at Ukraine PMDay to share my thoughts about organizational design and culture in agile companies.
Published: 2021-Apr-24

I was honored to be invited by Ross Chayka and the team at Ukraine PMDay to share my thoughts about organizational design and culture in agile companies.

With a lens on the history of work, I examined the contrast between industrial manufacturing and modern hi-tech product development. The contrast between Fred Taylor’s “Scientific Management” and the empirical patterns of predominant Agile practices begs the question: “How is it that Taylor’s Scientific Management is so unscientific?”

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