This is one confusing thing about Kanban. The Kanban JIT manufacturing process that Toyota developed is different from the agile Kanban process used in software

This is one confusing thing about Kanban. The Kanban JIT manufacturing process that Toyota developed is different from the agile Kanban process used in software. The latter was inspired by the former, but they are very different. Here is the Wikipedia article talking about Kanban as an agile process: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban_(development)