<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Steven Walling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:swalling@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">swalling@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Erik Moeller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erik@wikimedia.org" target="_blank">erik@wikimedia.org</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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1) Instead of Scrum, some teams at Mozilla use Kanban (less focus on<br>
velocity, roles, rituals; more focus on just tracking ongoing work and<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">This is kind of me trolling, but I would guess that once MediaWiki changes to continuous deployment rather than scheduled weekly windows, Scrum's emphasis on time-boxed sprints formed by planning meetings will feel increasingly artificial and "un-agile". </div>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, since you're trolling,  I'll be contrarian: </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/against-kanban.html">http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/against-kanban.html</a><br>
</div><div><a href="http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/against-kanban-part-2.html">http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/against-kanban-part-2.html</a><br></div><div><a href="http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/against-kanban-part-3.html">http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/against-kanban-part-3.html</a><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>These are from 2009, so maybe a bit dated, but I do think a kanban process can be misused in ways that are much more difficult in Scrum.  </div><div>-Chris  </div></div><br></div></div>