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Criterion
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Paper illustration of Product Kata with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Product Kata
Paper illustration of a Learning Card with four fields for hypothesis, observation, insight, and action.
Product Discovery
Learning Card
Purposedifferent
When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.When a story becomes too large for a clean flow, it breaks scope down along value and risk. It shapes the work into a form that ships earlier and is easier to verify.Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning.The Learning Card connects traceable test results to a reasoned next action while keeping the limits of the insight visible.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min30-60 min1-2 Wochen je Loop25-40 min
Participantsdifferent
3-122-63-101-5
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsSmaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleDirection, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning reportLearning Card with evidence and next action
Tagsno overlap
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
BacklogIterationDelivery
OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching
ExperimentsValidationDiscoveryLearning
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