I see it the other way round.  We&#x27;re doing Scrum (ish, I guess) right now, and the see-saw between either ending a sprint with a couple of late-night panic sessions to get everything out of the door, or ending it with most of the team kicking their heels with one pair still going up to the deadline is what feels like the slog.  I see Kanban as much smoother: I don&#x27;t see artificial, self-imposed crunch mode every fortnight as a positive.  It&#x27;s all very well aiming at a social commitment, but the way it works in practice is either a) you under-estimate and have dead time; b) you over-estimate and crunch; or c) you nail it and one sprint runs smoothly into the next.  The trap is that c) never happens.<p>I think what makes the difference is that we&#x27;re continuously delivering, so there&#x27;s no delivery ceremony between one sprint and the next to make the crunch mode mean something.