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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 Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
Operations
8D Problem Solving
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.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.For an acute quality or delivery problem, the method structures immediate protection and root cause work together. It keeps the situation stable while the actual cause is investigated cleanly.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighHigh
Timedifferent
Ongoing90-180 min1-6 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-123-84-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence8D Report, Containment Plan, Root Cause Evidence, Corrective Action Plan
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
QualityProblem solvingRoot cause
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Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
Paper illustration for Pareto Analysis
Decision Making
Pareto Analysis
Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause Analysis