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Many teams believe they are doing Scrum, but are embracing Taylorism instead

Many teams believe they are doing Scrum, but are embracing Taylorism instead

Scientific management vs Empirical Process Control

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Willem-Jan Ageling
Feb 12, 2020
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Scientific management vs Empirical Process Control

Cigar workers in the Ybor factory, around 1920
Cigar workers in the Ybor factory, around 1920 — from Wikipedia

Scrum is founded on Empirical Process Control, not on the Scientific Management (Taylorism).

Still, many people believe that (Scrum) teams should work more efficiently. With this, they appear to misunderstand Scrum completely.

They try to help …

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