Production Simulation

While software engineering is quite a lot unlike manufacturing a motor car, the Toyota production system metaphors only work when you pretend that it is quite a lot LIKE manufacture.

In addition, while Agilistismical practice is quite unlike that which yields effective results, it is in your interest, in order to be able to remain in the organisation, creating further change and further Agilisma, to declare that the yield has been positive. Cue Production Simulation.

Production Simulation
This is what happens when you use:

• Optimistic reporting - promising the world about the future and sugaring the pill about the past
• Reality refactoring - confusing the management about what they thought they knew about their business - redefining familiar terms and adding Japanese where necessary
• Claiming all success as proof - where you demonstrate that your influence is within an environment where success is still possible (even though the success usually comes from elsewhere, outside of your control)

If there is anything to show management at the end of each reiteration, you should be able to spin that into a placebo which simulates production via the illusory progress effect.