Wednesday Apr 12, 2023

Scrum or Kanban? Does it have to be choice?

🚀A fresh episode of The Delivery Space podcast has landed, featuring our stellar guest, Helen Meek!🚀Scrum Masters & Agile Coaches! Do you ever feel like there's more you could do to boost your team's performance? The title "Scrum Master" may suggest a sole emphasis on Scrum, but that doesn't mean we're restricted from incorporating other methods to elevate team effectiveness. Helen Meek comes on board to discuss how embracing Kanban practices can lead to data-driven insights and unveil team enhancements that'll leave you questioning why you didn't give it a shot earlier 🤯.Helen is an outgoing and driven coach and trainer who is passionate about working with Individuals, teams and organisations on their road to agility. Helen has working with many varied organisations and teams in many different industries and brings this vast wealth of experience and knowledge to her training and coaching.Helen has a holistic approach to coaching operating with individual team members, whole teams, leaders, managers and executives across technical and non-technical departments. You will often find her working with clients on rolling out enterprise level Kanban or Scrum.Helen is proud to be an Accredited Kanban Trainer with the Kanban University (KU) and runs regular classes publicly and privately. Helen is also one of the few people to hold the Train the Trainer title for the KU. Not forgetting her roots Helen is a regular trainer for Agile and Scrum.Helen's Linkedin Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helenjmeek/We discussed:1️⃣ Tackling misconceptions directly that it must be either Scrum or Kanban, as if they're in some sort of rivalry, rather than considering their potential to complement one another. (2:08)2️⃣ Helen’s direct experiences of why Scrum teams switch to Kanban practices - the good and the bad (3:21)3️⃣ No framework is a silver bullet. The importance of using your Scrum practice to the fullest extent and not just jumping from one framework to another, but dealing with dysfunctions and challenges as they come up. (6:10)4️⃣ Merging the worlds of the Agile advocates and Senior leadership whose aim is to grow and evolve their businesses (8:01) 5️⃣ Evolving through the Kanban Maturity Model to get consistent results and showing visibility of the flow work through the entire system. (15:00)6️⃣ Helen’s take on securing leadership buy-in when introducing new practices and ways of working. (20:11)Follow the Delivery Space on: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/2HW2Ni2 LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-delivery-space/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/delivspace/ Follow Nisha on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishajoshi1/ Follow Sharon on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-williams-pmo/

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