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Thanks. Ultimately, I think I was referring to the Taylorist aspect. There's also a philosophy that I've seen labelled as "teamism" and which seems to form th

Thanks. Ultimately, I think I was referring to the Taylorist aspect. There's also a philosophy that I've seen labelled as "teamism" and which seems to form the basis of methodologies like Scrum. I'm not sure teamism is quite the same thing as Taylorism -- but it shares the same distrust for individuals working on problems without near-constant oversight.

crdoconnor 9y ago
Scrum has elements of Taylorism: team members are treated as interchangeable cogs to be assigned units of work and it has a crappy "productivity" measure built in (velocity).
- epalmer 9y ago
  I don't measure velocity in the scrum team I coach. And people's skills are not interchangeable but we do want most of the team member to be able to perform the easy stuff. A front end developer is not interchangeable with a backend developer. Having a task card about thinking through a design is always welcome. We use standup to have face to face conversations.