Talk “Scrum and Kanban Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter”
Speaker: Damon Poole
Track: Project Management
Audince Level: Practitioners
By now you’ve probably heard of Kanban, the newest Agile methodology on the block. Much as Scrum and XP play well together, so do Scrum and Kanban. In fact, all three work well together.
This session will introduce Kanban from a Scrum perspective, show how the Lean practice of “One Piece Flow” is the key to both, and look at how to mix and match Scrum and Kanban to fine tune a process that fits your circumstances. This will include: decoupling once-per iteration activities from the iteration, work-in-progress limits, and the concept of “pull.”
Learning Outcomes
• Identification of problems that arise in Scrum that Kanban can help with
• The basics of Kanban
• How to apply one-piece-flow to Scrum
• Smoothing out problems at the iteration boundary by applying the decoupling principle
• The value of work-in-progress limits and how to apply them to Scrum
• How Kanban can help with your real-world process problems
Process/Mechanics
This session is aimed at people that have been doing Scrum for at least 6-9 months and are looking for practices and concepts to consider applying to their existing Scrum implementation. The goal here is not to convert to Kanban, but to take a look at some common problems that Scrum teams run into, show how Kanban may be able to help, and consider adding some ideas from Kanban to “fortify” Scrum.
