Code Te Ching - Verse 44

Two Fredericks were talking.
Taylor said to Brooks:
I know of a process, the kind they call "agile."
The rules are too flexible, so lacking in specifics,
No one can make sense out of it.
A graph would be impossible.
You cannot cut it up in any way that makes sense.

There the idea sits,
No executive will look twice.

Such is your teaching –
big and useless.

Brooks replied:
Have you ever seen the wildcat
Crouching and watching his prey –
This way it leaps, and that way,
high and low, and at last lands the trap.

Have you seen the yak?
Great as a thundercloud
He stands in his might.

Big? Yes: but he can't catch mice!

So for your process. Big and useless?
Then plant it in the depths of organization
In the unfinished projects.
Walk idle around
Watch while projects finish themselves.
No executive can touch it.
No chart can ever tie it down.

Useless? You should worry!