How IBM started grading its developers' productivity

[IainB]

I wonder what DC forum members might make of this.
To me it looks like it is either a regression to the archaic methods of Taylorism, or - more likely - a marketing puff for something called the Cast development platform.
How IBM started grading its developers' productivity

[Renegade]

Not sure. It sounds all rosy, but then again, roses have thorns too...

[IainB]

This what you get when you carry Taylorism to its logical perfection in the "motivational" feedback of employee productivity:
Steve Lopez: Disneyland workers answer to 'electronic whip'

I suspect that this may be what is implied by the use of the term "motivation", in the IBM/Cast article.

Yep, let's go back to what was already an obsolete school of thought by the 1930s.