Scrumban

Taking Scrum outside it’s

comfort zone
 About Me
• Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Practitioner, Certified Scrum
Product Owner
• 13 years experience leading R&D organizations (including VP
R&D) focusing on System-level software and products.
• Focusing on:
– Change Management and effective Agile Transitions
– Enterprise-scale Agility
– Lean, Kanban, and agility for special circumstances
– Using Retrospectives and Systems Thinking to identify and address
deep issues with how product development organizations execute
– Agile Management
• Find me on:
– yuval@agilesparks.com
– @yuvalyeret
– http://www.linkedin.com/in/yuvalyeret
Why do we
need to look
outside

What
is this
Kanban/
Scrumba
n?

How does it
compleme
nt Scrum?

When
would we
want to use
it?
Scrum’s Comfort Zone

Event-driven

R&D
Enterprise Project
Scrum
Development
 What is event-driven?
• Helpdesk/Support activities
(driven by cases opened
by customers, under SLA)
 What is event-driven?
• Hardening/Packaging
phases (driven by defects
found in testing)
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need to look
outside
What
is this
Kanban/
Scrumba
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How does it
compleme
nt Scrum?

When
would we
want to use
it?
Kanban
 Toyota Production System
“The two pillars of the
Toyota production
system are just-in-
time and automation
with a human touch,
or autonomation. The
tool used to
operate the system
is kanban.”

Taiichi Ohno, Toyota

Production System
(adopted 1962)
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• Enhances Teamwork
– Team focus on goals that
add value not individual
tasks
• Encourages Swarming

http://www.flickr.com/photos/markop/2523825358/
 When Blocked…
• Lower priority work…
– Spikes
– Analysis
• Production Capability
Improvement work…
– Tool Automation
– Refactoring
– Personal Development
– Innovation
• But NOT
– Anything which will create
work downstream

NOTE: This doesn’t mean you should ONLY “sharpen the knife” when
Cumulative Flow Diagrams

http://www.agilemanagement.net
 Why do we
need to look
outside

What
is this
Kanban/
Scrumba
n?

How does it
compleme
nt Scrum?

When
would we
want to use
it?
• Easier transition for Scrum teams/organizations
– Step by step migration – see
http://leansoftwareengineering.com/ksse/scrum-ban/
Team Cadence/Heartbeat
Board reset
 Why do we
need to look
outside

What
is this
Kanban/
Scrumba
n?
How does it
compleme
nt Scrum?

When
would we
want to use
it?
 When should I use Kanban?
Extend Scrum to the whole
value stream
– Upstream - Manage the
Backlog process - All the
steps preceding the actual
development sprints
– Downstream –
Manage system testing,
packaging,
deployment
 When should I use Kanban?
• During hardening sprints
• For the support/helpdesk teams/activities
• For periods of heavy R&D
 When should I use Kanban?
• Another angle to start your transition from
– Add visibility and WIP controls to current
workflow
– Inspect the constraints/bottelenecks
– Adapt the workflow, resources, processes –
Scrum It if it makes sense!
– Drive for maximum throughput and fastest
time to delivery
– Repeat
 Why do we
need to look
outside

What
is this
Kanban/
Scrumba
n?

How does it
compleme
nt Scrum?

When
would we
want to use
it?
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Concepts
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 Ask us how

yuval@agilesparks.com
Get the slides at http://www.slideshare.net/yyeret/
 References and Material
www.agilemanagement.net
http://leansoftwareengineering.com/ksse/scrum-ban
www.limitedwipsociety.org
availagility.wordpress.com
aaron.sanders.name/
groups.yahoo.com/group/