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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 Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
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 a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-122-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsCounter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions
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FlowVisual managementDelivery
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Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree
Paper scorecard with four perspectives, connected objective cards and columns for measures, targets and initiatives.
Business Strategy
Balanced Scorecard
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper illustration of Goal Question Metric with its method-specific working model.
Engineering
Goal Question Metric