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Criterion
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Agile
Ideal Days
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Agile
Story Points
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
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 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.Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures.
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Timedifferent
15-60 minlaufend, 1-5 min je ItemHalber Tag bis mehrere Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-93-94-12
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsPoint Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity DataBalanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map
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EstimationEffortAgile
EstimationAgileMeasurement
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Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
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Product Strategy
KPI Tree
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Facilitation
Dot Estimation
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Engineering
Goal Question Metric