I think the Toyota Way of thinking makes a lot of sense in software development. It's definitely not just about process control in manufacturing. For example,

I think the Toyota Way of thinking makes a lot of sense in software development. It's definitely not just about process control in manufacturing. For example, there is a concept called "standard work" that describes how to do a particular job. I can imagine that being misused in software development. I tend to interpret it as suggesting that all work must be inspected, tested, and under version control (for example) rather than than suggesting that we are on some kind of virtual assembly line and all have to use the same text editor.