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| Criterion |  Engineering Kanban |  Agile Example Mapping |  Agile Three Amigos |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound. | When story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process. | When delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 30-60 min | 15-30 min | 1-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-7 | 3 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions | Clarified Story, Test Examples, Open Questions | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list |
Tagsno overlap | FlowVisual managementDelivery | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement | CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement | LeanFlowWasteDelivery |