For my three mobile products, I've moved the team from Scrum-like to Kanban-like, and it seems to be working better for the team.
I use the "-like" qualifier because I have one development team, three products, and three product owners who also have other products they are responsible for. The one product:one team ratio is impossible, and we don't really have MVPs. Kanban-like is a better fit for my team. It's not pure Kanban - this is not a pull system driven by customer demand, and WIP needs to be handled a little differently than it would be if we were talking about manufacturing, but it's working.
There are several variables to what makes an approach to managing work "fit." Will iterative development work for your project? Can you define MVPs? Are all team members and stakeholders experienced/trained in the approach? How large/complex is the project? etc... What works at one company may not work at another without significant change. Saving Changes...
Hi Pier,
Kanban is not an alternative to Scrum. Kanban is not a development process in itself, it’s just a simple method for managing work flow, whereas Scrum is a much more specifically defined development process. That’s why when you compared 23 Scrum rules and 2 Kanban rules, you came up with 25. They are orthogonal.
Many folks use a kanban board to manage their Scrum process or other agile/lean development practices. Saving Changes...
Wade HarshmanScrum Master| GDITIndianapolis, In, United States
"I recently heard a conversation, an impressive statement was "for Operations, Kanban fits better. For development, Scrum fits better". "
Kanban and Scrum are complimentary, not competitive.
But a better question: why does your organization divide operations and development? Saving Changes...
In a manufacturing operations and development are different things. In our environment operations is a plant term where we are producing a product for shipment. We use Kanban to manage our orders and supplies at our warehouse where we distribute our product to customers. Saving Changes...
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