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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 for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication.When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-2 h30-90 min Setup, danach laufend60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-124-121-83-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationSalience Diagram, Strategy per Class
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
ForecastingFlowDelivery
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
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