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| Criterion |  Engineering Kanban |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |  Delivery Monte Carlo Forecasting |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 30-60 min | 30-90 min Setup, danach laufend | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-10 | 1-8 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | FlowVisual managementDelivery | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | ForecastingFlowDelivery | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |