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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 matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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 topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing45-90 min60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-124-124-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsPerspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action ItemsProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
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FlowVisual managementDelivery
FacilitationOptionsDecision
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree