> each product item is customized to meet demand No, each product run is customized. Products are already known and fixed (they have been built before, with th

> each product item is customized to meet demand No, each product run is customized. Products are already known and fixed (they have been built before, with the same specs), the demand is unknown (in advance). There is a subtle difference between this and your “make CRUD for xyz”, where XYZ is always something different (if it wasn’t, we’d just reuse the thing we wrote the last time). I would encourage everyone to read a book about TPS (The Toyota Way is a good one), and compare/contrast that with Kanban as an agile software methodology.