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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 for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration for Planning Poker.
Agile
Planning Poker
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication.When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.When estimates within the team diverge too much, it puts differing expectations on a common test bench. It separates rough complexity from unspoken assumptions.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing30-90 min Setup, danach laufend30-90 min2-5 min je Item
Participantsdifferent
2-121-83-123-9
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsRelative Estimates, Assumption Notes, Split Candidates
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
ForecastingFlowDelivery
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
EstimationAgileRelative sizingTeam
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