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Criterion
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration of Dual Track Agile with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Dual-Track Agile
Paper illustration for Bucket System.
Agile
Bucket System
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.When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.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.When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing30-90 minLaufend, Wochen bis Monate30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-123-124-103-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsDiscovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte StoriesBucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
AgileDiscoveryDelivery
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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