I asked you about Scrumban and your replies caught me by surprise. It is Scrumban that's confused... or is it me?

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Links:

- The previous episode on Scrumban:    • Will the real Scrumban please stand up  

- The LinkedIn post on Scrumban: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/garyst...

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157. What you taught me about Scrumban. (And Kanban.)
#scrumban # scrum #DevelopmentThatPays

I asked you for your thoughts on Scrumban and you responded in some numbers. I also got more than I bargained for. I've been getting something very wrong and it's time to come clean about it. Welcome back to the shed at the bottom of the garden. You know I had a comment not too long ago casting doubt on whether I really am in a shed at the bottom of the garden. So I think we need to put that one to rest and take this thing outside. Yes, it is a shed. Yes, it is at the bottom of the garden. You're not seeing it at it at its best: that's undercoat; I need to get a top coat on. That's on my Kanban board. But to business! Let's get straight into some of your many many comments. Here's one that I liked: "Dear Gary, I followed your channel for a while and it become quite a fan of Scrumban (excellent!) So now I'm scared... but always excited to see what insights you have to share". Yes, I do have some new insights. And the person who sent me this email is probably not the one that should be scared because, as you'll see, it's more me that became scared the more that I went into the comments. And to foreshadow that a little bit I had another email (I think it was an email - I'm not sure) saying that - in quotes - "If you tell me you're doing Kanban I also have a good idea of what you're doing". I think that was a quote - that was a quote - from me from my previous video all about Scrumban where I talked about how I thought it had an identity crisis and this person has basically said, "The Kanban bit: are you sure " He actually says "Do you think so " Yeah, we'll come back to that because that's quite key to some new realizations that I've been having. As I said, we'll get to that in due course. I sent out an email. I sent out some various quick questions on various places: I guess there was the video itself, all the comments that came into that. I also sent an email to my whole list saying if you have any thoughts on Scrumban please let me know. And last but by no means at least, LinkedIn. I also put a post on LinkedIn asking for feedback and I got plenty. But let's start with a real simple one: "Scrumban isn't that a cross between Agile Scrum and Kanban I think I've heard of it. But other than that I don't really have a strong opinion on the matter." Okay. The one that really made me smile was from Krishna on LinkedIn where he just says "Scrumban the agile turducken." And he provided a nice little picture of that dish - I'll put it up on the screen. And Krishna, you got me. I went looking for the etymology of that word expecting to find it was German or perhaps East European. It's not. It's just the words chicken turkey and duck. Not in that order, is it No: turkey, duck and chicken squashed together. A portmanteau word. I've tried to group these. I've tried to put some structure to it. That's not always easy to do. I had many people saying, well, expressing concern about "this Scrumban thing". Here's a good example of that: "I think many people who want to implement Scrumban don't always have the best intentions. They want some sort of easy watered-down version of Scrum. So really they want ScrumBUT rather than ScrumBAN. So it's Scrum but we're not doing the things that we don't like doing." Yeah, and I think in my in the previous video I'd expressed that very sentiment. This is a good one, also on an email. (By the way, when it's an email I'm not going to mention people's names. When it's LinkedIn I may mention people's names.) This is a good one: "Generally when a team tells me they're using Scrumban, it's another way of saying 'We do Sprints. We don't meet Sprint commitments. We can't make commitments. We pick the parts of Scrum and Kanban we want to do. We get all worked up done so don't bug us'". Yeah. The next series and Malcolm Lisle. Malcolm sent me an email but he also sent
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