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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 of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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 many stakeholders compete for attention at once, the Power Interest Grid sorts them by influence and stake. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Power Interest Grid and a stakeholder-specific strategy.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.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
MediumLowMediumLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing30-60 min1-2 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-122-84-122-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsPower Interest Grid, Strategy per StakeholderAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentPlanning
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
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