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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 of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
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 a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-2 h30 min Setup, dann laufend60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-124-121-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsRAID Log, Status Report SourceStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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