The updated Kanban Guide for Scrum Team was released

Blogs describing the changes are coming soon. That is why this was a soft release which will be more formally announced soon.

Here is an overview on what’s new - September 2019

This revision aims to improve the clarity and organization of the Scrum with Kanban Guide. Several concepts have been refined and a few topics previously covered in addendums and additional materials have been brought into the guide itself. Specific changes include the following:

• A revamped theory section to make clearer connections between flow and empiricism and to introduce flow metrics and Little’s Law.

• A clean-up of the definition of workflow section that moved some examples into the Kanban practices themselves.

• Some of the policies are now more general to reduce the level of prescription and focus more on the principles.

• The scope of visualization and accountability around defining the definition of “Workflow" have been revamped.

• The addition of a section about how the increment is affected by the flow. 

• SLE is now part of the active management of workflow section.