Kanban and Scrum ask different things of management; what do they explicitly say about management’s involvement and how might that influence adoption? Just as Paul did in his second post on becoming a catalyst, we will use the following principle from the Agile Manifesto as a vehicle for our investigation: Build projects around motivated individuals….

I have always found the analogy of owning vs. renting a useful tool for exploring the differences between Scrum and Kanban. Although neither the Scrum Framework nor the Kanban Method are “processes,” teams use them as a basis for creating their processes, and, in my experience, teams starting with Kanban generally have a stronger sense…