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"[..] we're surprised that people don't generally feel motivated to improve quality because we vastly underrate the value of the familiar."

"While Scrum's primary goal is organization and project management, Lean is more about optimizing processes in order to quickly produce quality products. It can be your first step toward adopting Agile principles, or it may be something that your team evolves to, when Scrum isn't enough. I invite you to read my team's story, and how we evolved from Scrum to a more Lean-ish development process."

An interesting read: legacy software is there and an important part of our lives, but maintaining it may pose a challenge. The author argues that agile methods may even be more beneficial to teams maintaining legacy code than to teams that build brand new products from scratch.