If the waste in your software development process is basically on topic software development activity, you’re in pretty good shape already. In my world it’s th

If the waste in your software development process is basically on topic software development activity, you’re in pretty good shape already. In my world it’s things like meeting load, calendar fragmentation, 3+ interviews a week, distributed sites, lurching from planning cycle overhead to perf/promo cycle overhead and back again, promotion oriented development, constant deprecation and migration churn among perfectly good dependencies, shitty oncall loads, etc. When you get an afternoon free to actually address the software development tasks ahead of you, that itself is cause for celebration, no matter whether they are the optimal tasks to do or done in the optimal way.