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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 NoEstimates.
Agile
NoEstimates
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
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 estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing30-90 min Setup, danach laufendlaufend30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-121-82-123-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationThroughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing RulesAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
ForecastingFlowDelivery
EstimationForecastingFlow
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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