Kanban isn’t perfect
We’ve successfully moved to Kanban and are really happy with it, but it’s by no means a perfect solution.
The Software Tools For Kanban Are Nascent
We use and love Atlassian Jira and Greenhopper. They have some nice Kanban features, but their Kanban board is relatively new and lacks the planning coordination we so hugely desire.
Loss Of A Systematic Focus On Urgency
With Scrum, that sprint clock ticks loudly. Everyone feels the pressure to get their work done before the sprint ends. Urgency is baked in. In Kanban, urgency is more abstract and doesn’t have quite the same emotion pressure. We’ve had to impose a sense of urgency in our team through culture and management—harder but hopefully healthier.
Keep Calm and Kanban
Kanban’s power comes from its focus on getting fewer items out faster through work in progress limits. Like anything, it’s not perfect and it may not be right for everyone in every situation but ultimately, we ended up with a happy team, higher productivity, less tension between the business and engineering, higher quality software, and A LOT less overhead. Win!
Kanban’s power comes from its focus on getting fewer items out faster through work in progress limits. Like anything, it’s not perfect and it may not be right for everyone in every situation but ultimately, we ended up with a happy team, higher productivity, less tension between the business and engineering, higher quality software, and A LOT less overhead. Win!
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