Shokunindō — References

These references are included for lineage and grounding. They are not canon.

Foundational Ethic

• Craft traditions (Shokunin, Takumi)
• Continuous improvement (Kaizen)
• Reliability as moral stance

Industrial System

• Toyota Production System (TPS)
  • Genchi Genbutsu
  • Jidoka
  • Andon
  • Hansei

Software Era Expressions

• Agile Manifesto
  Values direct engagement, working systems, feedback from reality, and adaptation over adherence to plans.
• The Twelve-Factor App
  Encodes deployability, operability, and inspectability as design constraints to ensure reliability under change.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
  Treats reliability as a first-class feature, formalizing sustainable pace, failure handling, and continuous learning at scale.
• Extreme Programming (XP)
  Preserves hands-on craft through technical discipline: testing, refactoring, pairing, and small, finished increments of work.

Adjacent (Reference Only)

• Lean Software Development
• Original DevOps movement (pre-tooling era)

Excluded by Design

• Scaling frameworks
• Metrics-first management systems
• Velocity-optimized delivery models

These references support the practice of Shokunindō. They do not replace it.