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| Criterion |  Engineering Kanban |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Delivery MoSCoW |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible. | When a release carries too many demands and priorities are only ever negotiated, MoSCoW creates clear boundaries for the next cut. Must, Should, Could, and Won't make commitment, room for maneuver, and trade-off logic visible to everyone involved. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 90-180 min | 1-3 h | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-8 | 4-10 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Prioritized Backlog, Release Scope, Tradeoff Notes |
Tagsno overlap | FlowVisual managementDelivery | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | PrioritizationScopeDecision |