The entire offshoring software industry is already Taylorised. I'm not saying it's good or efficient but it is the reality of large software projects. The arc

The entire offshoring software industry is already Taylorised. I'm not saying it's good or efficient but it is the reality of large software projects. The architects are onshore and have never coded in their lives. They draw boxes on whiteboards and feed UML to offshore dev 'factories'. That UML gets decomposed so that you will have factory lines of developers producing classes (sometimes just methods) in isolation. LOC is frequently used as a productivity measure by their management. It's about as far from software as craft as you can get.