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Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Purposedifferent
The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMedium
Timedifferent
5-15 minOngoing
Participantsdifferent
1-52-12
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
VC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepKanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics
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StartupValidationCompetition
FlowVisual managementDelivery
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Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping