I hear a question more often if agile is under the Lean umbrella, "so what is Kanban, and how does it compare to Scrum?” Scrum and Kanban are similar in certain aspects. In some others ways they are different. I am not talking about the similarity/differences here. Let's keep them aside for the time being. But lets understand under what circumstances how we can make best use of one over the other. Also can we combine them? If so, when? The image below is more of self explanatory. The axes represent how much risk involved in the project versus the focus. Here risk emphasizes the exploratory of innovative nature of the work. More exploratory, more the risk of failure and thus risk appetite of organisation is on the higher side.