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Currently, on the ALT.NET mailing list, there is a still-active thread about Lean Manufacturing concepts applied in software (collectively known as ‘lean software’ or ‘lean software development’). Many of the posters are making half-joking remarks, some are serious. I can’t help but get the feeling, though, that many think that Lean software is yet another soon-to-be-failed attempt at the unattainable unified theory of software development processes. Perhaps it is, but that’s not the point. The point is that Agile started us on a path to break out of the classic, failed approaches to software development. It helped us realize that there might be a better way and that we have to go find it.