Agile Approaches: Smart and Kanban
Explore the Smart and Kanban Agile approaches to understand how Smart structures complex projects with iterative workflows and multiple roles, while Kanban focuses on optimizing processes by visualizing work steps, reducing work-in-progress, and eliminating bottlenecks. Gain insights into how these methods enhance project flexibility and efficiency in Agile environments.
Smart
Because DSDM offered us few concrete tools, we created the Smart approach at the end of the 1990s. Over the years, Smart has grown into an independent Agile approach.
What does Smart stand for?
A characteristic of Smart is that there are several types of iterations. At the start of a project, the backlog is filled with work items that are conditional for software realization, such as the identification of stakeholders and goals, modeling business and smart use cases, making an estimate based on smart use cases, the preparation of a baseline architecture, setting up the development environment, and creating a project plan. The majority of these work items are realized during the preparatory iterations, Propose and Scope. The Propose iteration culminates in a first project proposal. Scope ends with the delivery of the project plan.
The backlog is then filled with the modeled smart use cases, the standard unit of work in Smart. These smart use cases are realized during one or more releases. A release is a set of “Realize iterations,” followed by a “Finalize” iteration. During the “Realize” iterations, the smart use cases are ...