Kanban and ScrumWhen Kanban makes sense? How it different from Scrum? Can we use both?

Based on:

http://www.infoq.com/minibooks/kanban-scrum-minibook

Maintenance tasks can pop up any time

Releases are ad-hoc

Estimation & planning is difficult

The problem

Visualize the workflow

Limit work in progress (WIP)

Measure the lead time

Kanban in a nutshell

Scrum prescribes roles

Scrum prescribes timeboxed iterations

Scrum prescribes cross-functional teams

Scrum resists change within the sprint

Scrum board is reset between each iteration

Scrum backlog items must fit in a sprint

Scrum prescribes estimation and velocity

Scrum prescribes meetings and charts

Differences

Both are Lean and Agile

Both limit Work In Progress

Both use transparency to drive process improvement

Both don’t provide all the answers

Similarities

Standups

Sprint review/demo

Retrospective

Scrum practices we still use