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How to mix Scrum and Kanban?

Vladimir Gorshunov

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About speaker

Vladimir Gorshunov• Consulting Office Location Lead

• ICAgile accredited trainer

• Agile Coach

• Agile Project Manager

• Technical Consultant

What I will try to NOT talk about?

– Scrum

– Cases when you can apply it

– Problem solving with Scrum

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What I will try talk about?

What will you use when “Scrum from the box” doesn’t fit your needs?

– Mobile development

– Production support and development

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What is mobile development?

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What is mobile development?

Around 3-4 people per each platform team

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What is mobile development?

Short time projects

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What is mobile development?

No dedicated QA & designer.

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Fixed scope and budget!

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What is mobile development?

What is a service in production?

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What is a service in production?

There are a lot of ideas from business.

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What is a service in production?

It is hard to determine how many developers we really need.

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What is a service in production?

Urgent tasks – make it NOW!

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What is a service in production?

Business really cares about time-to-market.

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What is a service in production?

Developers use agile, designers don’t.

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Does Scrum from the box will help you?

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How to handle it an Agile way?

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Preparation

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Transformation

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Mobile dev teams composition

iOS & Android

team

QA service team

Design service team

Backend service team

Third party

service team

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Production teams composition

Coreteam

QA service team

Design and front-end

service team

DBA service team

Third party service team

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Production teams composition

Coreteam

Feature team

Support team

Service team integration

Involve service teams on demand

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Kanban: Visualization

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Kanban: WIP limit

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Kanban: Measure lead time

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ScrumBan – mix Scrum and Kanban

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We can use them together!

ScrumBan iterations

Scrum-like planning & iterations

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ScrumBan iterations

Measure average things released per iteration

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ScrumBan iterations

Cumulative Flow diagram instead of Burndown.

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ScrumBan iterations

Synchronized sprints for all platforms

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ScrumBan flow

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ScrumBan flow

Use the late pulling tasks by developers.

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ScrumBan flow

Ready to development column

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ScrumBan flow

One task in progress for each developer?

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The Final step is Pull (or prioritization-on-demand)

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ScrumBan is NOT a silver bullet

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But in some cases it can be extremely useful.

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ScrumBan can be used for:

- Mobile development

- Production support and development

- Plugin development

- Prototype development

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Questions?

Vladimir GorshunovConsultant Office Location LeadCiklum Consulting Office (CSC)

email: vlg@ciklum.com web: www.ciklum.com/consulting skype: vladimir.gorshunov

I would be glad to answer your questions!