> To cut to the chase, I see two main planks to your thesis, which I will return to as we go through the content, and which are both erroneous:

> Software development is a reducible activity, and can be measured with reductionist tools.

> Software development is primarily about coding, and anything other than typing code into a computer terminal is waste which we should seek to eliminate.

Quite. Good development minimizes coding. That's not very reducible.