---
title: "Scrum vs. Kanban attitudes"
url: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/scrum-vs-kanban-attitudes.md"
canonical: "https://www.5whys.com/articles/scrum-vs-kanban-attitudes.html"
published: "2010-06-13T03:52:16+00:00"
updated: "2011-04-04T22:46:41.022000+00:00"
tags: ["Meta", "Self-Leading Phase", "Shu"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "A link to a post on how Kanban and Scrum differ in attitude and in how they provoke change, with a note that combining the two can work well."
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Scrum vs. Kanban attitudes

If you’re wondering about choosing Kanban or Scrum for your team or organization, I’ve found [this post to be very enlightening](http://agilemanagement.net/index.php/site/comments/thoughts_on_how_kanban_differs_from_scrum/) on the differences in attitude and change provocation between the two. I’ve also found that integrating them into a single process can be very healthy.

## Read next

- [Why XP’s influence is more effective than Scrum](https://www.5whys.com/articles/why-xps-influence-is-more-effective-than-scrum.html): Why XP practices like TDD, pair programming and continuous integration change team behavior better than Scrum alone, seen through six forces of influence.
- [What to do if some people in the team just don't want to take a task?](https://www.5whys.com/articles/what-to-do-if-some-people-in-the-team-just-dont-want-to-take.html): How a Scrum team leader should respond when team members won't pick tasks in sprint planning, with different tactics for each team maturity stage.
- [The 3 maturity stages of a software team and how scrum fails to identify them](https://www.5whys.com/articles/the-3-maturity-stages-of-a-software-team-and-how-scrum-fails.html): The chaotic, mid-life and mature stages of a software team, the leadership each one needs, from dictator to coach, and why Scrum Masters miss them.

## Topic

- [Scrum Master](https://www.5whys.com/topics/scrum-master)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/