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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 Shape Up with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Shape Up
Paper illustration for Current Reality Tree
Systems Thinking
Current Reality Tree
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.Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts.A Current Reality Tree condenses many symptoms into a few causal chains. The method makes visible which core problems drive several negative effects at once.
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Timedifferent
Ongoing6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down2-6 h
Participantsdifferent
2-122-4 pro Pitch3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsPitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomesCurrent Reality Tree, Core Problems, Intervention Ideas
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FlowVisual managementDelivery
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Systems thinkingRoot causeConstraintsCausality
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Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints Thinking Process.
Systems Thinking
Theory of Constraints Thinking Process
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper illustration for Causal Factor Analysis.
Operations
Causal Factor Analysis
Causal Loop Diagram workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Systems Thinking
Causal Loop Diagram