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Criterion
Paper illustration for Ideal Days.
Agile
Ideal Days
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
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Agile
Affinity Estimation
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.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.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
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
15-60 min1-2 h30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-92-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
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EstimationEffortAgile
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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Assumption Surfacing
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
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