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Re:Ask HN: Why Not Kanban? by rhaway84773 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @08:53AM (#37336393)
Doesn’t Kanban split development into chunks of work as well?

The only difference between Kanban and scrum that I can see is that Kanban doesn’t insist on a 2 week sprint, although there’s no reason why you can’t adopt a Kanban system with a 2 week checkpoint and prediction window as well.

Re:Ask HN: Why Not Kanban? by pg_1234 on Thursday August 31, 2023 @12:54PM (#37340206)
Kanban shows you where you are (how you use this info is up to you).

Scrum shows you where you are and tries to predict where you'll be in 2 weeks.

Where Scrum goes horribly wrong is when management tries to treat the 2 week prediction as a guarantee rather than a guess ... and to compound the problem imposes tougher predictions/deadlines to squeeze out more work.

Whatever the stated intentions, in practice Scrum almost always goes bad in this way.