Mark Graban is a friend of mine and a long time advocate and practitioner of Lean, in his blog article, he addresses some misconceptions with Lean.
I couldn’t agree more with his words so I will let him speak uncommented;
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So when you say Lean, do you really mean L.A.M.E.??
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