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Paper illustration of a two-by-two Ansoff Matrix with four growth directions
Business Strategy
Ansoff Matrix
Paper illustration for NoEstimates.
Agile
NoEstimates
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration of Porter’s five competitive forces
Business Strategy
Porter Five Forces
Purposedifferent
The Ansoff Matrix organizes growth options by market and product relation. It helps weigh expansion, diversification, and adaptation cleanly against each other.When estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules.When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable.Porter Five Forces analyzes the forces that shape competitive pressure and profitability in a market. The view of market structure goes beyond individual competitors and reveals systemic pressure points.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
45-90 minlaufendOngoing1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-82-122-122-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Ansoff Matrix, Growth Options, Risk NotesThroughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing RulesKanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsFive Forces Analysis, Competitive Risks, Strategic Options
Tagsno overlap
GrowthStrategyMarketPortfolio
EstimationForecastingFlow
FlowVisual managementDelivery
StrategyCompetitionMarket
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