Is Scrum based development better than Agile or Kanban?


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What are the pros and cons from your experience or opinion of each way of software development?

  • Scrum
  • Agile
  • Kanban

Which do you use right now and recommend for a small team of 3?

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asked Feb 22 '14 at 07:58
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Essie Taylor
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  • Scrum and Kanban *are* agile. Is there something else that you were thinking of? Maybe XP? – rbwhitaker 10 years ago

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Scrum and Kanban are agile methodologies, so there is no comparison there.

Both Kanban and Scrum

  • use pull scheduling
  • limit work in progress (WIP)
  • use transparency to drive process improvement
  • focus on delivering releasable software early and often
  • are based on self-organizing teams
  • require breaking the work into pieces
  • continuously optimized the release plan based on empirical data

Here is a more detailed evaluation of the differences & similarities between these two methodologies.

Asking a technical community to pick which methodology is "better" is like asking a room of democrats and republicans their opinion on heathcare. Best to learn what each approach offers and see what best fits you. (BTW - you ARE asking your development lead to pick this, correct? Otherwise the probability of it actually getting implemented is slim.)

answered Feb 22 '14 at 16:45
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Jim Galley
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