Around agile software development, since lean as the "Toyota Way" originated from Japan, a lot of Japan's folklore diffuses into modern agile dev- lingo, such a

Around agile software development, since lean as the "Toyota Way" originated from Japan, a lot of Japan's folklore diffuses into modern agile dev- lingo, such as Kanban, Kata, Dojo, Kaizen. I found another term that I liked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsujigiri http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsujigiri In my mind this is isomorphic to the metaphor of the hammer. A samurai with a new sword will go out and cut up the first person he sees. This is a cautionary tale, you might end up hurting somebody. If, for example you get a new katana(e.g. python decorators) you might decorate everything that looks like a function, but you would actually suffer casualties in readability and structure; debugging becomes a mess. Therefore you should also understand when and who needs to be cut up.