Is Agile the same as Lean? When do people say “Agile” do they really mean Scrum? Or do people still use different types of Agile – and if so, why? First, Let us record this in a table format How Agile Practices Match to Lean Principles and then discuss: Lean Lean comes from Lean Manufacturing and is a set of principles for achieving quality, speed & customer alignment (same…
Agile Kanban Software Development: Kanban Development is derived from the Lean Production System used at Toyota. “Kanban” is a Japanese word meaning “signboard”. or Kanban task board as it is also called, plays an important role in the development methodology. David Anderson created the official “Kanban Method”. He took the Theory of Constraints and applied it to the Flow of Software Development. This method is simple and is a super useful Getting-Things-Done (GTD) technique….
Lean Software Development: The Poppendiecks created Lean Software Development (LSD) by importing lean manufacturing ideas into software development. LSD focuses more on principles and, to me, feels less concrete compared to other agile methods. I really liked the ideas of value stream mapping and trying to follow and reduce waste. I was never able to reconcile one mental model. Product discovery…
Agile SCRUM: Agile Scrum belongs to the List of Popular Agile Methodologies (WAVE-I) used by the Organizations Practicing Agile. Would you like to see the other Agile Methods in WAVE-I?, Click Here Scrum Teams: Scrum Teams are made up of the Development Team, a Product Owner, and a Scrum Master. Development Team: The Development Team…
Popular Agile Methodologies: Scrum: Scrum is today, somehow becomes the synonymous with Agile founded by Ken Schwaber and Jeff Sutherland. This agile methodology is definitely an improved project management process. It brings rhythm and synchronizes. people all working towards the same goal. I like how Scrum provides a simple. Starting framework that builds trust through incremental delivery. Plan a bit,deliver a…
What are the Different Types of Agile Methodologies? Agile started with a simple set of values and principles. I think it is not a good idea to group these methodologies & consider as different WAVES. In my opinion, Some of the methodologies can be tagged into WAVE-I & Some can be tagged under WAVE-II. WAVE-I Agile started with a simple set of values and principles.WAVE-II methodologies…
Kanban: Kanban (看板) translates to “billboard” or “signboard” in Japanese, and was originally developed by Toyota in the 1940’s. Toyota found a better engineering process from an unlikely source: the grocery store. They noticed that store manager restocked a grocery item by their store’s inventory, not their vendor’s supply. Only when an item was near sellout did the clerks order more….
Comparison between Agile SCRUM & KANBAN: Both Agile KANBAN and SCRUM focus on releasing software early and often. Both require highly-collaborative and self-managed teams. But, Are you curious to compare the key Features of it, would be interesting…. In KANBAN, there are no prescribed roles <=||=> In SCRUM, there are Pre-defined roles of Scrum master, Product owner and team member. In KANBAN, Work is…
KANBAN and SCRUM: SCRUM and KANBAN are two of the most popular ways to implement Agile practices within software development teams. SCRUM has prescribed roles and ceremonies and focuses on delivering small batches of potentially releasable work in short time-boxes. KANBAN focuses on visualizing work, flow, and limiting work in progress. Both place an emphasis on CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT. While both have been shown to be…
Differences Between Scrum and Kanban: There are two primary differences between these two Agile methodologies: how they deal with timing and their differing treatment of meetings/rituals. Scrum focuses on getting things done within the predetermined sprint length. Each Scrum team determines how long its sprints will be, but it’s nonetheless a fixed timeframe. Kanban, on…
