Is Scrum based development better than Agile or Kanban?

What are the pros and cons from your experience or opinion of each way of software development?

• Scrum
• Agile
• Kanban

Which do you use right now and recommend for a small team of 3?

Scrum and Kanban are agile methodologies, so there is no comparison there.

Both Kanban and Scrum

• use pull scheduling
• limit work in progress (WIP)
• use transparency to drive process improvement
• focus on delivering releasable software early and often
• are based on self-organizing teams
• require breaking the work into pieces
• continuously optimized the release plan based on empirical data

Here is a more detailed evaluation of the differences & similarities between these two methodologies.

Asking a technical community to pick which methodology is "better" is like asking a room of democrats and republicans their opinion on heathcare. Best to learn what each approach offers and see what best fits you. (BTW - you ARE asking your development lead to pick this, correct? Otherwise the probability of it actually getting implemented is slim.)