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I believe that the dominant paradigm for managing product development is wrong.
Not just a little wrong, but wrong to its very core. - Donald G. Reinertsen

Agile Software Development, Kanban and Scrum

We believe that the Agile movement has effectively addressed many of the problems and faulty assumptions that have plagued software development for decades. Kanban offers a fresh perspective and is also suitable in situations where agile processes like Scrum are not a good fit.

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So What Is Wrong with the Current Orthodoxy?

Don Reinertsen lists twelve critical problems:

  1. Failure to Correctly Quantify Economics
  2. Blindness to Queues
  3. Worship of Efficiency
  4. Hostility to Variability
  5. Worship of Conformance
  6. Institutionalization of Large Batch Sizes
  7. Underutilization of Cadence
  8. Managing Timelines instead of Queues
  9. Absence of WIP Constraints
  10. Inflexibility
  11. Noneconomic Flow Control
  12. Centralized Control

Perhaps there are reasons for the dismal track record of old-style software projects.