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People: Respect and Acceptance

Explore how forming agile teams based on respect and acceptance shifts focus from hierarchical roles to shared knowledge and team performance. Understand how eliminating rigid role divisions enhances responsibility, fosters collaboration, and supports the success of large software projects.

Taylor’s centralized knowledge teams

A development team is not usually organized like a team in the strictest sense of the word (assembled by peers with equal rights), but is more like a hierarchy. The typical hierarchy in a development team, which can be found mainly in traditionally led projects, follows Taylor’s theoryTaylorism is characterized by the division of labor, repetitive operations, extreme labor discipline, and the supervision of work. about centralizing a team’s knowledge. The individual team members take up specific roles and corresponding tasks. Analysts, designers, developers, and ...