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| Criterion |  Engineering Kanban |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 30-60 min | 1-3 h | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-6 | 3-8 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | FlowVisual managementDelivery | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | FlowMeasurementConstraints | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |