Choose
- No way, they are opposites: Kanban is for flow / Scrum batch
- Yes, Scrum is old school big planning steps
- Yes, Kanban minimal planning / Scrum is heavy planning
- No, Scrum can reduce to KanBan
As much as we love scrum, even we would have to admit that it’s not perfect. Nothing is. In fact, a large part of our book describes workarounds for various deficiencies that scrum presents to us in certain circumstances.
One of the more commonly noted deficiencies in scrum is that it plans its work a whole Sprint at a time. This “batch” planning process is often not agile enough to cope with the actual rate of change of requirements. In fact, Chapter 4.4 on PlaceHolder Stories, the discussion of the mid-Sprint Re-planning in Chapter 4.8, and the discussion of renegotiating the scope of a Sprint in Chapter 4.3 are all about resolving this deficiency.
There is another agile process, called KanBan, which solves this problem and is becoming popular for software development projects. In our upcoming book we will describe the main strength of KanBan and how to integrate it into scrum.
A placeholder story is a sign of sloppy planning
