> So software developers came up with a system that works well for them, but instead of giving it it's own name they reused the name from a manufacturing system

> So software developers came up with a system that works well for them, but instead of giving it it's own name they reused the name from a manufacturing system. thus leading to endless confusion. It's amusing to me, because without knowing any of this I've often felt & said that (especially scrum but kanban too) is depressing even just in the terminology used and seems designed to treat us like workers on a factory line. And lo, that is actually whence kanban at least came.