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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 Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing45-90 min60-120 min
Participantsdifferent
2-121-62-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
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Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting