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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 for NoEstimates.
Agile
NoEstimates
Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
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.When a story becomes too large for a clean flow, it breaks scope down along value and risk. It shapes the work into a form that ships earlier and is easier to verify.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoinglaufend30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-122-122-6
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsThroughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing RulesSmaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
EstimationForecastingFlow
BacklogIterationDelivery
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Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration for Three-Point Estimation.
Decision Making
Three-Point Estimation