Developer productivity has long been a contentious issue. At one extreme, you have an industrial-era viewpoint that the ...

Frederick Winslow Taylor applied this principle systematically to develop a model of ‘scientific management.’ He broke down complex work processes into simple repetitive tasks assembled in ...

Each worker was trained to do just one of these steps. Ford called in Frederick Taylor, the creator of "scientific management," to do time and motion studies to determine the exact speed at which ...