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by AnimalMuppet 735 days ago
> The Taylorism didn't exist until "Agile" came along around the year 2000.

There was plenty of that before 2000, but it was more in the mainframe world. "Data processing". Government contracts. Business applications. "Software analysts" who broke the problem down into small chunks, and gave those to programmers.

I have been in the industry for 39 years, and I avoided almost all of that, but it was there...