Working agile with scrum

Beside my desk at home is a whiteboard with coloured sticky notes. This is my personal kanban. When it comes to implementing agile working within a professional team, my company is committed to scrum. I’ve heard my team’s concerns about the flexibility of scrum, although the reasoning for this framework being imposed by the company is understandable: scrum helps management improve estimates of project end dates, which also helps our customers.

It can be tempting to compare scrum and kanban and pick a favourite. I’m avoiding this. While I’m happy using kanban for my personal tasks at home, my company follows scrum so I’m taking this opportunity to fully immerse myself in new ways of working and soak up all the knowledge I can. Maybe I can help develop my team’s scrum habits.