Choosing The Fit
Use Scrum when:
- Work benefits from timeboxed goals and demos
- Stakeholders want regular, predictable checkpoints
- Team is cross-functional and product-focused
Use Kanban when:
- Work is variable, interrupt-driven, or queue-based (incidents, infra)
- You need continuous flow, not timeboxes
- You want to start improving tomorrow with what you have
Use Lean always:
- It guides how to remove waste and improve the system regardless of method