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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 Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
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.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
Ongoing45-90 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
2-121-63-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
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FlowVisual managementDelivery
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
Systems Thinking
Intervention Mapping
Paper illustration of Lean Startup with its method-specific working model.
Innovation
Lean Startup