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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 Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
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.With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
Ongoing30-90 min Setup, danach laufend45-120 min90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
2-121-82-83-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
ForecastingFlowDelivery
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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