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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 for Wideband Delphi.
Decision Making
Wideband Delphi
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.A single opinion rarely holds up for planning when the future is genuinely uncertain. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as an Estimate Range, Assumption Log, and Expert Consensus Notes.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 Wochen1-4 h or multiple rounds90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
2-126-30 Experten4-12 Experten3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesEstimate Range, Assumption Log, Expert Consensus NotesCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
EstimationExpertsForecasting
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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