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Criterion
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper illustration for Feynman Technique.
Knowledge Modeling
Feynman Technique
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Purposedifferent
For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput.The Feynman Technique checks understanding by explaining a topic so that it stays easy for others to understand. It makes knowledge gaps visible before they become costly in everyday work.An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale.When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-3 h20-60 min1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-813-20 Reviewer2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up MeasuresPlain-language Explanation, Knowledge Gaps, Study NotesRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
Tagsno overlap
FlowMeasurementConstraints
LearningKnowledgeUnderstanding
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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