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Criterion
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Agile
Ideal Days
Paper mind map with a central course onboarding question, colored main branches, keywords and cross-links.
Facilitation
Mind Mapping
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 topic is still unclear and too many thoughts surface at once, Mind Mapping creates an open surface for ordering them. It makes connections, subtopics, and starting points visible without fixing them too early.
Complexitysame
LowLow
Timedifferent
15-60 min15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
2-91-10
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsMind Map, Topic Clusters, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
EstimationEffortAgile
BrainstormingIdeasMappingStructureFacilitation
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