Tracks/Track 17 — Technical Framework Comparisons/17-4
Track 17 — Technical Framework Comparisons

17-4: Agile vs Kanban

Sprint-based vs flow-based delivery: mapping team topology to the correct operational methodology.

1 Lessons~45 min

🎯 What You'll Learn

  • The ceremony overhead of Scrum
  • Cycle time reduction in Kanban
  • Transitioning ops teams out of Sprints
Lesson 1 / 2
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The Cost of Misaligned Methodology

Forcing Scrum on infrastructure teams creates immense ceremony overhead. Ops work is interrupt-driven flow. Moving them to Kanban with strict WIP limits immediately increases throughput.

WIP Limit Efficiency

The percentage throughput increase after enforcing WIP limits.

+35% Output
📝 Exercise

Identify one team currently struggling with sprint commitments. Can they move to Kanban?