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Re:Turn Your Best Programmers into Managers by Izkata on Saturday December 24, 2022 @04:02AM (#34115192)
> They need to walk the genba, the factory floor, and see firsthand what the state of things is.

> With software, the genba is not the office. It is the codebase.

Amusing aside: my dictionary includes "scene of the crime" in the translations for "genba".

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Re:Turn Your Best Programmers into Managers by kqr on Saturday December 24, 2022 @04:25AM (#34115310)
It's really a very general work meaning "the place where it happens" -- in the context of lean, where work happens. In a criminal investigation...
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