Chapter 5. Evolving from Scrum
This chapter is for people currently using Scrum for product development. If you don’t use Scrum, feel free to skip this chapter.
Kanban will seem quite familiar to people with Scrum experience—using Kanban is a straightforward evolution. Daily standup meetings, working together in feature teams, completing features before starting new ones, and engaging frequently with customers are all common practices in both approaches. Roles like Scrum Master and Product Owner are welcome in Kanban but aren’t as prescribed as in Scrum.
After more than 20 years of using traditional Waterfall, I spent 8 years using Scrum, and I loved every minute. Scrum was a revelation to me—the iteration, the focus on empowering teams, the ...
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