As seen at a blog about cars:
Every software shop from Hyderabad to Cleveland now faithfully, and idiotically, replicates a cargo-cult version of the “standups” and “kanban methods” that were designed to work on a factory floor.
The “standups” are particularly miserable: Toyota’s version was best understood as a five-minute meeting where any potential issues in a given assembly-line department would be sorted out before the shift began, but under the corrupting influence of IBM, Accenture, and other “body shops,” the concept has degenerated into a 45-minute hellscape of offshore “engineers” mumbling a list of their miniature accomplishments out of a speakerphone while everybody else shifts from leg to leg and attempts not to fall asleep.
Shit, man. If even a pro racer turned autojourno can tell, we in software are past the point of ridiculous. That said, morning assembly is nothing new - it was a thing in the 1950s, long before Toyota. It even had native names: in Russia it was called "lineyka", in Japan it was "cho~rei".
