Japan can legitimately lay claim to being the source of thinking that most influenced the creation of the Scrum framework, the most popular manifestation of Agile in the world. It is also the birthplace of the Toyota Production System whose methods are the principal source for Lean.
Yet Japan’s economy, booming from the 1950s to the 1990s has now been stagnant for decades. The adoption of Agile is nowhere near the level of the United States or Europe, while innovation in the country is seemingly at ...
