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title: "Farewell, Taylorism."
description: "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."
canonical_url: "https://pathfinder.betterteams.academy/articles/2021/04/farewell-taylorism"
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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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- [Ukraine Online PMDay 2021](https://pmday.org/opmd21svideo) · *Online · April 24, 2021*

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