Kanban Quotes

“Summary of Scrum vs Kanban

Similarities:
- Both are Lean and Agile
- Both use pull scheduling
- Both limit WIP
- Both use transperency to drive process improvement
- Both focus on delivering releasable software and often
- Both are based on self-organizing teams
- Both require breaking the work into pieces.
- In both, the release plan is continuously optimized based on empirical data (velocity/lead time)”
― Henrik Kniberg

“Differences:

Scrum:
- Timeboxed iterations prescribed.

Kanban:
- Timeboxed iterations optional. Can have separate cadences for planning, release, and process improvement. Can be event - driven instead of timeboxed.”
― Henrik Kniberg, Kanban and Scrum - making the most of both

“Work takes a long time to complete because it sits in queues waiting for stuff to happen. It's not unusual for wait times to be more than 80% of the total time. Many organizations are blind to the queue problem. They tend to focus on resource efficiency instead of applying systems thinking to improve the efficiency of the whole system, end to end.”
― Dominica Degrandis, Making Work Visible: Exposing Time Theft to Optimize Work & Flow

“Quix even built a kanban board that talked. It had an AI voice that said things like, “Your velocity is weak, and your story points are ashamed to be associated with you.” We named it KanbanChatterbox.”
― Scott M. Graffius, Agile Protocol: The Transformation Ultimatum

“David, we have been around your building and we've seven kanban boards. Each one is different! Each team is following a different process! How can you possibly cope with this complexity?' My answer was always a dismissive 'of course! Each team's situation is different.”
― David J. Anderson, Kanban: Successful Evolutionary Change for Your Technology Business