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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
Paper fishbone diagram with a measurable effect at the head and six labeled cause branches.
Operations
Fishbone Diagram
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 problem has several possible contributing factors, the method sorts causes by cause areas. It prevents an initial hunch from blocking the view of other plausible drivers.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-122-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsFishbone Diagram, Cause Categories, Investigation Backlog
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
Root causeQualityOperations
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