He mentions this in the article to say that it’s a “fatal flaw” that might cause this methodology to not work in your org. However, he also fatalistically assum

He mentions this in the article to say that it’s a “fatal flaw” that might cause this methodology to not work in your org. However, he also fatalistically assumes that skipping muda is a failure case, rather than just a realistic response to balancing short vs long term considerations. I suggest above that muda should either 1) be worked on, or 2) the fact that it’s being deferred should be explicitly captured. And, since there are competing interests (leadership is accountable to net productivity while ICs are not) the deferral capture needs to be anonymous to prevent top-down pressure in the direction of ignoring tech debt accumulation.