Working within Kanban

The Kanban method is another popular Agile approach. While Scrum is focused on an iterative and incremental development and delivery workflow, Kanban favors a more continuous flow. With Kanban, there are no required time-boxed events or iterations. System backlog cards are pulled into the To do columns as and when needed. There are some other things to note when working with Kanban:

• The Doing column has a card limit. Only a certain number of cards are allowed on it at any given time. This usually corresponds to the number of developers on the team, thus ensuring a developer is only working on one thing at any one time.
• The responsibility for managing the system backlog falls mainly to the Service Request Manager (SRM). This is an informal role similar to the Scrum's product owner, although the SRM is regarded more as a customer proxy, rather than someone who decides what the product should look and behave like.
• Kanban does not prescribe team...