Hello and welcome to this series of articles allowing you to discover Scrum With Kanban!
These articles aim to allow you to understand simply how Kanban can be integrated with Scrum. You should be familiar with Scrum before reading these articles, as we will be discussing Kanban in a Scrum framework.
What is Kanban?
The Japanese term “kanban”, which means “billboard” or “sign”, has been used to refer to this process since the 1950s. Initially developed and implemented by Toyota in a “Lean Management” context, the method is used as a planning system for lean manufacturing.
The term “Kanban” is now associated with the emergence of the “Kanban Method” which was officially defined in 2007.
ScrumBan?
We have long heard about ScrumBan, which is always described in a very abstract way, and often victims of misinterpretations leading to bad practices.
Scrum with Kanban has been available since 2018 on scrum.org https://www.scrum.org/scrum-kanban , it is an official and optimized version available on, so we will forget Scrum Ban.
Why use Kanban with Scrum?
When Kanban practices are applied with Scrum, they emphasize visualization as well as improving flow through the feedback loop (a process in which the results of an action are used to influence future decisions or actions).
Kanban also adds some metrics allowing more transparency and identification of problems in the system in order to push continuous improvement even further. Before attempting to implement Scrum with Kanban, I recommend having a clean and well-applied Scrum, otherwise your benefit will be lesser, even negative.
Professional Scrum With Kanban 1 Certification (PSK1)
If you wish to take this certification, reading this series of articles may help you! I do not think I will revolutionize what you understand through the Scrum With Kanban Guide (and I recommend you to read it at least once), however, I will give examples of applications allowing a better understanding, and I hope to see from another angle the use of Scrum With Kanban. I will also write some documents aiming to simplify your revisions 😉
However, I also recommend you to read as well as the articles provided by Scrum Org in the perspective of passing the certification Profesionnal Scrum With Kanban 1 :
https://www.scrum.org/resources/kanban-guide-scrum-teams
https://www.scrum.org/resources/suggested-reading-professional-scrum-kanban
as well as the book: Applying Scrum with Kanban: A Pointless Book! by Andy Hiles.