Thanks. The point is that applying simple tools like Kanban or trying to "shock" the system by "becoming" agile typically does not work because these tools do not address the underlying issues.
Kanban is the silver bullet of the day which sinking enterprises reach for. I've been a software engineer since 1989, and the entire time has been filled with process/method fads "which will fix everything." In 1989 it was Yourdon's institutionalized bureaucracy. Today it's Kanban.
Doesn't make Kanban broken; it just means that it is the non-solution for today's desperate souls.
Very true. There is always some new "fix it." The problem is often that the engineering tools do not improve product management in the least and if the product strategy is bad and customer understanding is missing, no engineering team or tool can solve that.