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Criterion
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration for NoEstimates.
Agile
NoEstimates
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Purposedifferent
Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.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 a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions.
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Timedifferent
Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochenlaufend30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
4-122-122-6
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative MapThroughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing RulesCounter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions
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StrategyMetricsExecution
EstimationForecastingFlow
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Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric