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Scaling Delivery Speed and Predictability with Scrum and Kanban Integration
- Integrating Scrum and Kanban resulted in cultural transformation and delivery speed improvements for a misaligned development team.
- Challenges the team faced included lack of accountability, mechanical Scrum practices, absence of quality standards, and a blame culture.
- Transition initiated after adopting Professional Scrum with Kanban principles, focusing on visualizing work and making incremental improvements.
- Solution involved defining flow, limiting Work in Progress, rebuilding Scrum practices through a flow lens, and evolving estimation techniques.
- Results after nine months included reduced cycle time, increased Sprint goal achievement, improved release frequency, and enhanced forecast accuracy.
- The team rediscovered its rhythm and confidence by transforming into a solution-oriented community with a reliable delivery system.
- The integration of Kanban into Scrum improved structure, transparency, and flow control, resulting in faster releases and higher team morale.
- The transformation enabled the team to work in small batches, deliver customer value frequently, and focus on improving customer outcomes.
- Key advice from the article: when facing dysfunction in a Scrum environment, evolve the practices instead of abandoning them.
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