A team I’m working with has switched from Scrum to Kanban to manage their development efforts. As a result, the team doesn’t have regularly scheduled planning meetings to create a task-driven plan for the upcoming iteration time box.
So does Kanban development have no planning meetings? No! The team self-organizes meetings around a single feature rather than a specific period of time.
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Interesting! Would love to know how the reasons behind this change and how things go a few months down the line.
I’d like to see how things go too! I’ll keep everyone posted with regards to how things stabilize.
What’s interesting is that the frequency of these “all-hands” meetings seem to occur at the same rate that Sprint Planning meetings would occur with Scrum.
What I’m finding however, is the focus on the meetings are much higher because it’s around a single topic (a single Minimal Marketable Feature (MMF)).
What surprised me was the ‘post-meeting’ meetings. Many ad-hoc meet-ups form where interested parties discuss architecture, database schema, interaction design etc. It’s like spikes are happening ‘on-demand’.
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