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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
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration for Standard Work Analysis.
Operations
Standard Work Analysis
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 story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process.When the same task is done differently depending on the person, the method exposes the reliable core. It creates comparability without unnecessarily choking off needed latitude.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing15-30 min1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-1232-6
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsStandard Work Sheet, Deviation List, Improved Standard, Training Needs
Tagsno overlap
FlowVisual managementDelivery
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
LeanProcessQuality
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Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration of Acceptance Criteria Workshop with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Agile
Acceptance Criteria Workshop
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
Gemba Walk workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Gemba Walk