Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Six Sigma. We apply these disciplines and frameworks to software development with the intent to improve our processes, but sometimes we lose sight of the goal and follow the practices prescribed by these tools to our detriment. Principles of Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Six Sigma can be used to make your software development worse instead of better, and we see this happening too often. This talk will point out how software development is different from other disciplines to which process improvement frameworks are applied, and how those differences should alter the way we apply them to software development. You will learn what goals you should focus on most when attempting to create high-performing software development teams.