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Every single day, engineering teams need to do magic. Such magic manifests in several different shapes and forms. It could be by making hundreds of assumptions, figuring out what to do with little to zero context, and delivering decent solutions with proper architecture, design, comprehensive testing, and value via continuous delivery. It's a lot. In reality, most industries use Scrum/SAFE, which is far from the best way to work. In theory, when you are doing Scrum, if you do not finish a story during the spring, it's not a big deal; you go to the next one, shift the stories to the following spring, and it's all good. However, in reality, it is not exactly like that, unfortunately. That happens for various reasons: ignorance of what proper agile looks like, irrational pressure, industry pressure, and hundreds of other uncontrolled and hidden variables. Lean is all about learning to see waste, remove it, optimize it, and improve it with more quality. Companies, unfortunately