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| Criterion | ![]() Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud | ![]() Agile Story Points | ![]() Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. | When teams want to rate complexity rather than hours, it creates a shared, relative scale. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Point Estimates, Reference Stories, and Velocity Data. | A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | laufend, 1-5 min je Item | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-9 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments | Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity Data | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections |
Tagsno overlap | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking | EstimationAgileMeasurement | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange |
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