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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 notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-2 h Setup, laufend1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-1213-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineBottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
FlowMeasurementConstraints
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Paper illustration for Weekly Review.
Operations
Weekly Review
Paper illustration for ALPEN Method
Operations
ALPEN Method
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis