Fist of all, it might be not the right choice of methodology as government and non profit clients are not the best audience to apply "lean". These guys are very

Fist of all, it might be not the right choice of methodology as government and non profit clients are not the best audience to apply "lean". These guys are very conservative, especially in Canada. Second, it appears a lot of problems appeared because founders didn't know what they are building or what they want to build and relied on "lean" as a magic bullet to help them figure it out. Third, it's hard to believe but I've met people who applied "lean" and other methodologies without actually diving deep and at least reading the underlying manifesto books thoroughly. Lean methodology is so easy, isn't it? Build an MVP and then iterate. To sum it up, there's nothing wrong with lean methodology. These guys first failed at understanding it. Then no wonder that they double failed at execution.