the.com/management theory
the ongoing attempt to make herding cats look like a science.
means a body of ideas about how to organize people and resources to get work done efficiently, ranging from rigid rulebooks to trust-your-team philosophies.
from born in the smoke of early 1900s factories, when frederick taylor started timing workers with a stopwatch to shave seconds off shoveling coal, and management went from gut instinct to something people wrote textbooks about.
taylor's stopwatchhe timed pig-iron loaders to the second
hawthorne effectworkers improved just from being watched
peter principleemployees rise until promoted past competence
maslow misquotedhis pyramid was never actually a pyramid
for instance
scientific management — taylor's 1911 stopwatch system, treated workers as machine parts
toyota production system — 1950s japan, birthed lean manufacturing and just-in-time
agile manifesto — 2001, 17 developers in utah rewrote how software teams work