This document summarizes how Scrum and Kanban can be combined to improve agile practices. It provides an overview of Scrum and Kanban, including their origins, key principles and diagrams. It then discusses areas where Kanban concepts like work in progress limits and visualizing workflow can be applied within Scrum processes like discovery, delivery and operations. Contact information is provided for the presenters to learn more about agile consulting, training and certification offerings.

1. Improve Scrum with Kanban
Laura Richardson & Kert Peterson, CST, AKT
July 29, 2020

2. About Today’s Presenter and Host
Kert Peterson Laura Richardson

3. • CST® since 2004, trained by Ken Schwaber
• AKT (Accredited Kanban Trainer) since 2018
• Software engineer at NASA, IBM
• Senior Program Manager at Amazon.com
• Trusted coach to Dell, Rockwell Collins,
Bank of America, and Capital One Financial
• kpeterson@appliedframeworks.com
Kert Peterson

4. Separated at BirthSeparated at Birth?
Scrum Kanban

5. Agile Family Tree
https://www.gartner.com/en/documents/3971053/create-awesome-software-using-agile-practices

6. Agile in a Nutshell
Business IT
• Business & IT (Product & Dev)
• working together with a
• focus on customer needs and
• delivering value
• incrementally (in small batches)
• with steady feedback in
• self-organizing teams
++
Value

7. Two Origins, Two Approaches
?
Manufacturing
Toyota Production System (TPS) – Source: toyota-global.com“The New New Product Development Game“ (1986) by Takeuchi and Nonaka.
Type A – Isolated cycles of work
Type B – Overlapping work
Type C – All at once
Product Development
Honda, Canon, Toyota, 3M, …

11. Scrum Diagram by Valerio Zanini, CST

12. Scrum Diagram by Valerio Zanini, CST
upstream downstream
option pool
discovery
demand
analysis
flow
service
delivery
review
operations
review
strategy
review
demand shaping

13. • System of organizing principles and practices for
visualizing and optimizing workflow.
• Columns represents activities in the work process.
• Cards (service requests, features, tickets) are pulled
across the board as capacity allows
• Team process policies govern how and when a
card moves across the board.
• WIP limits, a managed commitment point, and a
signaling mechanism to pull new work into the
system are key elements of a Kanban system.
Kanban in a Nutshell (sort of!)

14. Where Scrum teams might apply Kanban
Deployment/OpsDiscovery
Delivery

15. Matt’s Kanban Iceberg
https://mattphilip.wordpress.com/2014/11/14/the-kanban-iceberg-presentation/
https://mattphilip.wordpress.com/kanban-posters/

16. Top 3 Ways Kanban influences my Scrum
Service
Paradigm
Upstream
Discovery
Demand
Analysis

17. Additional Kanban Resources
Matt Philip
Andy Carmichael
Brendan WovchkoPatrick Steyaert

18. Contact Us
Laura Richardson
SVP of Sales
+1-877-505-3684
lrichardson@appliedframeworks.com
twitter.com/lcaldie
linkedin.com/in/lauracaldierichardson
appliedframeworks.com
AGILE CONSULTING | ONLINE TRAINING | CLASSROOM
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Kert Peterson
Principal Consultant
+1-919-914-2884
kpeterson@appliedframeworks.com
linkedin.com/in/kertpeterson
appliedframeworks.com
AGILE CONSULTING | ONLINE TRAINING | CLASSROOM
TRAINING