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Criterion
Paper illustration for Bucket System.
Agile
Bucket System
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Purposedifferent
When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates.When work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner List.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
30-90 min20-40 min initial, dann laufend1-2 h30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-123-154-123-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split CandidatesROAM Board, Owner ListAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
Tagsno overlap
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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