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Paper illustration for Ideal Days.
Agile
Ideal Days
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Agile
Bucket System
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Product Strategy
DIBB
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.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.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.
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Timedifferent
15-60 min30-90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
2-93-122-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsBucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split CandidatesDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
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EstimationEffortAgile
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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Affinity Estimation
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Assumption Surfacing
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
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Delphi Method