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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 for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
Paper illustration of KPI Tree with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
KPI Tree
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 decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins.In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.When metrics across the organization drift apart, it arranges drivers and effects under one shared logic. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a KPI tree and owner list.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing60-120 min45-120 min90-180 min initial, dann laufend
Participantsdifferent
2-124-103-83-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsDecision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence PlanOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsKPI Tree, Owner List
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
MetricsStrategyAlignmentMeasurement
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