Your Guide to Stormboard’s Scrum to Lean Kanban Template

If you’re part of an Agile team, you may be using Scrum, which involves highly organized teams that follow an iteration work process. Part of your process likely combines Scrum with the Lean Development approach (which is another Agile method), or you might be looking to transition from Scrum to Lean.

Why use a Scrum to Lean Kanban? 

This approach is all about eliminating any waste within the work cycle and keeping your work processes as simple and straightforward as possible. Within Lean Development, there should be no extra steps to get your work planned and executed — only what is necessary.

Kanban is another Agile approach that revolves around visualization. This works well with Lean because they both have the goal to eliminate the amount of work being done to create the most streamlined process possible.

Both approaches work best with product development because teams can visualize their process while cutting out any unnecessary steps that take up time during production cycles.

How to use the Scrum to Lean Kanban Template

The Scrum to Lean Kanban template helps you and your team transition from a Scrum project to a Lean Kanban project, or combine the methods.

It works best with product-focused teams. 

The template contains six sections, including Backlog, To-do, Designing, Development, Testing, and Done.

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1. Backlog
   The backlog section is where ideas, thoughts, and tasks that are not yet done or waiting for approval are stored. A product backlog might have ideas for new products waiting to be discussed and executed. 

2. To-Do
   Just like a to-do list for around the house, this is where teams write what needs to be done. This is the ideal section to write any plans or projects that will be worked on soon.

3. Designing
   Use this section to document what is still being planned or designed by you or your team. The product designs that haven’t yet moved onto development or testing. Add anything that has moved past an idea but is still being designed.

4. Developing
   After a product has been planned and designed, it can be moved into development. In this section is what is being produced, manufactured, or executed. List all of the things that are now in the development phase.

5. Testing
   The Testing section is where your team documents which products are in the testing stage. Testing could be occurring by consumers, testing groups, or internally.

6. Done
   This section is for all the tasks that have been completed or deployed — the products that are finished and ready to go.

Conclusion

This template will work for teams who are implementing the Agile method but aren’t committed to one specific form of Agile. It can also work well for teams that need to transition from Scrum to Lean without using multiple templates.

Are you interested in trying the Scrum to Lean Kanban Template out with your team? Sign up for a FREE trial now or click here to learn more about Stormboard’s templates.

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