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Organizational Transformation

Are You Also a Kanban Team Squeezed into Scrum?

Explore how teams can find their own agile path with lightweight facilitation.

Leise Passer Jensen
Feb 25, 2021 • 16 min read
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Intermediate
Agile Teams
Facilitation
Kanban
Scrum
Team Dynamics

Summary

This article examines the pitfalls of improperly implemented agile frameworks and offers insights into how teams can discover their own effective ways of working through lightweight facilitation. It contrasts the experiences of 'Team Unhappy' and 'Team Happy' to illustrate the importance of context-appropriate frameworks. The piece emphasizes the value of Kanban for maintenance tasks and the need for teams to self-organize for better outcomes. Engage with this content to explore alternative agile practices that could enhance team satisfaction and performance.

Takeaways

  • Encourage teams to experiment and find the best approach for their context.
  • Facilitation can help teams discover their own effective working methods.
  • Kanban may be more suitable for maintenance tasks than Scrum.
  • Lightweight facilitation supports team autonomy and innovation.
  • Using inappropriate frameworks can demotivate and reduce team efficiency.
  • There is a lightweight facilitation principle that can be used to make demotivated teams invent their own effective way of working with their board(s)
  • Using the wrong frameworks that are unfit for the situation could be very demotivating and inefficient for teams

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