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by Ambele 2551 days ago
You should know that Toyota went full Agile last year. Not pure Agile but Agile in the Toyota Way -- where they produce 20x the documentation that the Waterfall Method produces. I'm not commenting on whether this is a good or a bad thing because my opinion doesn't matter but it enabled everyone to try something new. If the upper management in charge of tech had any free time, they'd might benefit from reading The Mythical Man-Month as you've brought up. Toyota has been about a year or three behind all of the car companies to adopt new tech like Alexa and Apple CarPlay. Regardless, Toyota has come a pretty long way since first being a loom company.
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Cutting-edge tech stuff isn't really Toyota's thing - they excel at quality, reliability, and lifetime value, and thus have an incentive to delay new tech until they can perfect it.