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Criterion
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Purposedifferent
When a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.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 many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 minOngoing45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
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Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Impact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsKanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
FlowVisual managementDelivery
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
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Gap Analysis method illustration showing its working structure
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Paper illustration of GIST Planning with its method-specific working model.
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