Day 3

Scrum and Kanban – Like Chocolate and Peanut Butter

80 Minute Workshop

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

Damon Poole is the founder and CTO of AccuRev.  He has 20 years of methodology and process improvement experience, running the gamut from small teams to 10,000-person global development shops. Damon is a Certified Scrum Master and writes frequently on the topic of Agile development with an emphasis on Multi-stage Continuous Integration. His “Do It Yourself Agile” blog is at damonpoole.blogspot.com; twitter: @damonpoole