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Scrum vs Kanban Boards: which Agile Tool should you use?
Scrum vs Kanban Boards: which Agile Tool should you use?

September 16, 2022

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This blog is the sixth in the series of blogs on Agile.

Project management methodologies allow teams to set a base for project planning across the project cycle. Few methodologies used for such project planning activities, look similar and are confusing.

Scrum and Kanban frameworks, both are a part of the Agile methodology, which help break down large and complex projects into smaller manageable pieces. This blog will talk about the differences between Scrum boards and Kanban boards.

Scrum Boards

In Scrum methodology, scrum boards are used to manage and monitor projects. They help to visually track what work is remaining under product backlog, what items are assigned to sprint backlog, and how work is making progress in the active sprint.

Scrum Boards can be a physical board with notes or cards attached, but they tend to be digital and online boards included in various project management platforms.

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Kanban Boards

Kanban is time-based and more focused on managing the volume of work in progress as compared to scrum boards. The Kanban framework is designed to help maintain a continuous flow of productivity while making sure no team member is overworked. It helps teams to reduce bottlenecks, improve efficiencies, increase quality, and boost overall output.

Earlier Kanban boards were on a whiteboard with different status columns like planned, in-progress, completed, etc. Each item of the deliverable is written on a post-it and placed under the status column they are in.

 

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Differences between Scrum and Kanban boards

Scrum and Kanban boards have similarities but have considerably different approaches in how they choose to implement.

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Adopting an Agile methodology is the first step to improving collaboration, refining consistent processes, and having that flexibility built in. One may choose Scrum or Kanban board or combination of the two.

Upcoming: Agile in Manufacturing Industry (Agile series part 7)

Read the other blogs in the series of Agile: 

An Alliance with Agile 

6 Best Practices your Agile Team should Adopt

Agile: Use Cases v/s User Stories

Which Agile Methodology should you use?: Scrum, Kanban or Lean

Burn-up or Burn-down Chart: Which Scrum method should you use?

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