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Flavors of agile
There are various flavors of agile, including the following:
- Scrum: This prioritizes the highest-value features and incremental delivery once every 2-4 weeks
- Kanban: This pinpoints bottlenecks to avoid holdups
- Lean: This eliminates waste and unnecessary documentation and provides future flexibility
- XP: This reconfigures and ensures the simplest design to deliver iteration features
Let’s look at the features of each one of the preceding points.
Scrum
- Reacts quickly in volatile markets
- Focuses on customer benefits and avoids both unnecessary outlays and time investments
- Utilizes organized development teams within a structured framework in order to coordinate activities and work together for quick decision-making
- Involves customers directly in the development process
Kanban
- Works with existing roles and processes and may be introduced either step by step or by establishing pioneer teams.
- Scrum and Kanban complement one another. While Scrum ensures adaptability and agility Kanban improves efficiency and throughput. Both techniques increase overall transparency.