Organizations have embraced the process and tools created by the Agile transformation, yet the Taylorist factory mind-set remains. There’s a lot less documentation to write, fewer specifications to read, and hardly any mandated signoffs, but these practices have merely been replaced with endless planning meetings and many pages of tickets in a project management tool—practices that still offer the Taylorist promise of giving management the insight and control they demand, because the role of managers is still to ensure that the right things get done.
