[BurningFrog]

I read this article hoping to learn what "kanban" really is.

From the text, it seems like it's scrum, but without having a deadline every sprint for what you committed to at the start of it.

And... that sounds exactly like the Pivotal school XP I've been doing for 10 years.

Words, words, words...

[antod]

The commonly understood aspects of Kanban is that it is a pull (team members assign themselves work based on priorities) system that has a 'work in progress' limit - ie the most number of items a team/person can work on at once. If something urgent comes up that needs working on right now, something else will need to go back on hold.

Kanban works best when tasks are explicitly prioritised against each other.