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Scrum Sprint Commitment Rant

By Yuval Yeret|2011-10-13T10:55:09-04:00October 13, 2011|kanban, Metrics, Scrum|

Going on a Rant If there's one thing that makes me mad whenever I see it is teams abusing the commitment concept in scrum. I've been on a rampage against dysfunctional sprint commitments for a while now, but lately my thoughts have crystalized a bit, especially when I had a chance to discuss this with Jim benson, Alan Shalloway, Chris Hefley and Jon Terry last week at Lean Kanban Benelux 2011. Background So what is the problem? Well quite often [...]

Want my elevator-pitch answer to what is Kanban for a Scrum rookie?

By Yuval Yeret|2010-10-05T11:55:35-04:00October 5, 2010|kanban|

Our coaching team at agilesparks runs into this question a lot. Many of the teams we are working with are familiar with Scrum and using it. Other teams are just now going into Scrum. Since kanban is becoming a hot buzzword, we often get asked - so what is this kanban thing? How is it related to Scrum? We needed a good answer, that depends on the context, the amount of time you have to answer, and the maturity [...]