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Agile vs KANBAN – what’s the difference

What’s is Agile?


Agile methodology is a practice which promotes continuous iteration of development and testing throughout SDLC life-cycle. Agile is alternative to a waterfall or traditional sequential development. It is ideal process for those who want to work with continuous feedback. 

It is a process in which requirement evolve and change. The primary object of each iteration is to comes with a working product. 

In an Agile approach, the leadership will encourage teamwork and direct communication. Here, stakeholders and developers should work simultaneously to align the product to match up their customer requirement and organization goals. 

What is Kanban?


Kanban process is nothing but a Board, which is called “Kanban Board.” This board plays a vital role in displaying the task workflow. It helps to optimize the flow of task between different teams. It is a method for defining, managing and improving services for delivering knowledge work. 

In this method, work items are printed visually. It allows team members to see the state of every piece of work at every development stage. Moreover, a team member gets overview who’s doing what and can identify and eliminate problem areas in the process. 

Kanban methodology allows reprioritizing work as per the need of stakeholders. As work moves from one state to another, some extra work also added until the flow is steady. The team collaborates with each other to improve the flow of work throughout the project. Kanban process is never restricted to set process and defined sprints. So, it offers flexibility for developers. 

Agile Principles

  • The goal is set to satisfy the customer by offering continuous delivery of software.
  • It always welcomes changes even during later stages. 
  • Deliver working system from 15 days to one month, with a purpose to limit the timescale.
  • Business stakeholders and development team will work daily until the project is over. 
  • Working software is elementary in Agile Process
  • Agile software development approach promotes sustainable development. 
  • Give complete attention to technical expertise 

Kanban Principles

  • Kanban process visualizes the workflow which is easy to understand. 
  • Encourage acts of leadership at all levels
  • It helps to measure and improve Collaboration 
  • Respect the current process, roles & responsibilities 
  • Helps team to make process easy and explicit
Here is a link to a table of differences by guru 99 https://www.guru99.com/agile-vs-kanban.html
Below are some videos explaining 
Posted on February 11, 2019

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