Tag: History of Agile
🚗 How Toyota Built Agile Before Agile Existed – Lessons from the Lean Revolution
1. The Context – Japan’s Postwar Crisis and Toyota’s Constraint In the late 1940s, Japan’s economy was shattered.Toyota, a small automaker compared to global giants like Ford, couldn’t compete in volume, scale, or capital. But instead of copying Detroit’s assembly-line model, Toyota flipped the script:If we can’t be the fastest or the largest, we’ll be…
⚙️ Agile Before Agile: What the Industrial Age Taught Us About Adaptive Project Management
1. Agile’s Industrial Roots – A Hidden Story Agile is often packaged as a 21st-century savior for software teams. But if we peel back history, its principles are centuries old. Industrial giants like Henry Ford and shipbuilders of World War II practiced forms of incremental work, cross-functional collaboration, and adaptive delivery. What they lacked in…
