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[Jenni Claire Postlethwaite]

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kanban 

[Bill Sheboy]

Hi @Jenni Claire Postlethwaite -- Welcome to the Atlassian Community!

To help clarify your question so the community may offer ideas, do you mean to ask:

1. When leading software projects which are not using iterative development...
2. When leading non-software projects...
3. Something else?

Kind regards,
Bill

[Jenni Claire Postlethwaite]

Hi bill - thanks for the warm welcome 

point 2.

[Bill Sheboy]

Thanks for clarifying!

The Scrum Framework can be used for managing many types of projects, although people often learn about it for helping with software, project or product development work.

For non-software work, you could use the iterative and incremental nature of Scrum when you find having short planning cycles, high visibility/transparency, and inspection/adaptation for course correction helps.  The Jira scrum board with a project could help with the planning and visibility parts.  This works better when using a stable team of people for the period of time for the work, helping the consistent and regular delivery of predictable chunks of value.

When there is more variation, perhaps due to work arrival of varying urgencies/priorities, consider looking at Kanban methods.  These are practices based on pulling work when there is capacity, limiting work in progress (WIP), and making workflow visible to drive improvements.  Jira also has support for Kanban boards.

Some teams use blending of these two methods, or move between them over time as their team evolves in their practices.

Please look here for some additional explanation from Atlassian on these practices and how they implement them with Jira Server/Data Center boards:

• https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban/kanban-vs-scrum
• https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirasoftwareserver082/configuring-a-board-974358643.html

[Jenni Claire Postlethwaite]

Great advice - thank you