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Criterion
Paper illustration for Ideal Days.
Agile
Ideal Days
Paper board with the four ROAM fields Resolved, Owned, Accepted, and Mitigated.
Agile
ROAM Board
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration of Dual Track Agile with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Dual-Track Agile
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 work needs to move between different states or columns, it makes that movement and its handoffs legible. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a ROAM Board and an Owner 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.When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
15-60 min20-40 min initial, dann laufendOngoingLaufend, Wochen bis Monate
Participantsdifferent
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Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsROAM Board, Owner ListKanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsDiscovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories
Tagsno overlap
EstimationEffortAgile
RiskAgileTrackingAlignment
FlowVisual managementDelivery
AgileDiscoveryDelivery
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