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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 of a calm four-quadrant Assumption Map with hypothesis cards and emphasis on important assumptions with little evidence.
Product Discovery
Assumption Mapping
Paper illustration for Knowledge Mapping.
Knowledge Modeling
Knowledge 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 assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first.Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing45-60 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-122-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsAssumption map, Test backlog, Risk rankingKnowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer Plan
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation
KnowledgeMappingRisk
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Paper illustration of Riskiest Assumption Test with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Product Discovery
Riskiest Assumption Test
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration of a Concept Map with concepts and labelled links
Knowledge Modeling
Concept Mapping