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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 illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
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 goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.When stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing45-90 min1-2 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-123-84-123-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsSalience Diagram, Strategy per Class
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
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