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...