And you may find yourself in a two bit startup
And you may find yourself in another part of your career
And you may find yourself in control of a large development team
And you may find yourself in a beautiful team, with a beautiful project
And you may ask yourself-well...how did I get here?

Letting the days go by/letting the defects hold me down
Letting the days go by/defects choking up the schedule
Into the blue again/after the budget's gone
Once in a lifetime/defects chocking up the schedule.

And you may ask yourself
How do I work this?
And you may ask yourself
Where is that beautiful process?
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful team!
And you may tell yourself
This is not my beautiful project!

Letting the days go by/letting the defects hold me down
Letting the days go by/defects choking up the schedule
Into the blue again/after the budget's gone
Once in a lifetime/defects chocking up the schedule.

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...

Bugs dissolving...and code refactoring
There is value at the bottom of the iteration
Carry the change request through the end of the iteration
Remove the bugs at the bottom of the iteration!

Letting the days go by/letting the defects hold me down
Letting the days go by/defects choking up the schedule
Into the blue again/in the silent standup
Under the build report/there defects choking up the schedule.

Letting the days go by/letting the defects hold me down
Letting the days go by/defects choking up the schedule
Into the blue again/after the budget's gone
Once in a lifetime/defects chocking up the schedule.

And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful project?
And you may ask yourself
Where did that schedule go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right? ...or am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
My god!...what have I done?

Letting the days go by/letting the defects hold me down
Letting the days go by/defects choking up the schedule
Into the blue again/in the silent standup
Under the build report/there defects choking up the schedule.

Letting the days go by/letting the defects hold me down
Letting the days go by/defects choking up the schedule
Into the blue again/after the budget's gone
Once in a lifetime/defects chocking up the schedule.

Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
Same as it ever was...same as it ever was...
[With apologies to fellow Scot, David Byrne and Talking Heads.] Technorati tag: Agile, David+Anderson

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