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Paper illustration for Ideal Days.
Agile
Ideal Days
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Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
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Agile
Story Points
Purposedifferent
When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
15-60 min1-3 hlaufend, 1-5 min je Item
Participantsdifferent
2-93-83-9
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsBottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up MeasuresPoint Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity Data
Tagsno overlap
EstimationEffortAgile
FlowMeasurementConstraints
EstimationAgileMeasurement
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