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Kanban vs. scrum
From the course: Agile Software Development
Kanban vs. scrum
- Both Kanban and Scrum support and facilitate agility. Scrum is a framework whereas Kanban is a visual process management tool. Also, Scrum works at a higher level of abstraction as compared to Kanban. Both Kanban and Scrum are lightweight and have very little prescription. I would say that Kanban is even less prescriptive than Scrum. Kanban can be used with Scrum, and this is often known as Scrumban. This means you have Scrum teams that follow Scrum but use Kanban to visualize their work and limit work in progress. Developers love Kanban because of its simplicity. Unlike Scrum, there are no mandatory events like sprint planning or sprint review. There are no artificial time boundaries such as the sprint. Work is pulled from the product backlog and work items transition through a continuously evolving work flow to become finished products with business value. Kanban has a daily standup, but the standup is focused just on bottlenecks and ways to improve the process. There are no…
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