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DevOps Paradox

You're reading from   DevOps Paradox The truth about DevOps by the people on the front line

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2019
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ISBN-13 9781789133639
Length 532 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Viktor Farcic Viktor Farcic
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Jeff Sussna 3. Damien Duportal 4. Kevin Behr 5. Mike Kail 6. James Turnbull 7. Liz Keogh 8. Julian Simpson 9. Andy Clemenko 10. Chris Riley 11. Ádám Sándor 12. Júlia Biró 13. Damon Edwards 14. Kohsuke Kawaguchi 15. Sean Hull 16. Bret Fisher 17. Nirmal Mehta 18. Gregory Bledsoe 19. Wian Vos 20. Index
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Toyota, the Taylor Principles, and Kanban

Viktor Farcic: This reminds me of Taylor, back in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Kevin Behr: Yes, the division of labor, right? Now Taylor got us a long way. Taylor got us to Toyota, and Toyota started with Taylor principles. A lot of people do not realize how much of Toyota's management system was scientific management.

Viktor Farcic: What I'm surprised about is how nobody stopped to consider whether it was actually a good idea to apply Taylor's principles to software development. Because if I'm doing the same thing today as yesterday, which is the only way to apply Taylorism, then I really suck at my job.

Kevin Behr: Oh, I'm not saying that it was good. What I want to say is that it was better than what was there before, even if it was optimized around the idea of mass production.

Viktor Farcic: Exactly.

Kevin Behr: Right now, we're in a different era of mass customization, with totally different thinking. But you&apos...

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