Why GUIs are built at least 2.5 times Or Why I Think Lean Software Development is Wrong Patricia Aas, 30 May 2025Over the past few days I’ve been writing on LinkedIn (here and here) and Mastodon (here), and this post is an attempt to explain better (?) This particular pattern is so common in programming that we generally don’t think much about it. Why Lean Software Development is WrongI think a big misunderstanding has been to think of Software Development as manufacturing. And this is where it’s very easy to miss, and Lean Software Development missed completely in my opinion. Like I’ve been telling countless Agile Coaches over the past few days: “How can you coach something you don’t understand?”.