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Criterion
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
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 knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighHighHigh
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-4 WochenHalf day90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
2-126-30 Experten3-123-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesLeverage Map, Action StrategyCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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