I don't know much about Kanban as a software development method, but from the description it seems more closely related to the original Kanban concept than the

I don't know much about Kanban as a software development method, but from the description it seems more closely related to the original Kanban concept than the Kanban Method. Kanban (the card system) is mainly about controlling work in progress and not so much about 'incremental process enhancement'. It sounds like the software methodology tries to mainly control the amount of in progress work as well. This isn't really a criticism on the point your making in the article by the way, which I think is still valid. I find it weird too that software development is being shoehorned into a manufacturing job control system.