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Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration of two considered options leading to a decision record with a marked status and visible consequences.
Architecture
Architecture Decision Record
Paper illustration for NoEstimates.
Agile
NoEstimates
Purposedifferent
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.An ADR permanently records an architecture decision with context, trade-offs, and consequence. It creates continuity for later changes because the decision path stays traceable.When estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing15-45 minlaufend
Participantsdifferent
2-121-32-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsADR File, Decision Log, RationaleThroughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing Rules
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
ArchitectureRationaleDocumentationGovernance
EstimationForecastingFlow
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Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Paper illustration for Three-Point Estimation.
Decision Making
Three-Point Estimation