When I used to work in manufacturing, my company was super into Lean. I even ended up getting an ASQ Six Sigma Green Belt certification. My favorite thing to say to people when they asked what 5S stood for was "Shove Stupid Shit Someplace Secret". In my experience, that wasn't an entirely inaccurate interpretation.

Joking aside, I think this article does a decent job of translating Lean manufacturing principles to coding, but the "Set in Order" section grinds my gears a little bit. I have worked on many projects of various sizes, and I think my fellow web devs tend to lean too hard into an overly nested directory structure. In manufacturing terms, imagine if you needed to open a cabinet that contains a toolbox with a plastic organizer in one of the drawers that contains a box that you had to open to get access to some rivets. It doesn't take much for that level of organization to kneecap efficiency. I would much rather have a single directory with 20 files than try to chase down a component file that's eight directories deep. Give me a big list of long descriptive file names, not short names that rely on the directory name to give context.