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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 NoEstimates.
Agile
NoEstimates
Paper notes move from an inbox to action, project and calendar collections.
Operations
Getting Things Done
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
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 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.With many open commitments and ideas in daily life, a reliable external storage system emerges. The method relieves the mind so priority and context don't have to compete in memory.When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
Ongoinglaufend1-2 h Setup, laufend45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-122-1212-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsThroughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing RulesAction Lists, Project List, Review RoutineCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
EstimationForecastingFlow
ProductivityPlanningTasksExecution
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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