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| Criterion |  Engineering Kanban |  Operations Waste Analysis |  Agile WSJF |  Delivery Monte Carlo Forecasting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For a process that keeps people busy but creates little value, the method exposes waste. It directs attention to unnecessary movement, waiting times, rework, and overdelivery. | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | High |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 45-120 min | 45-90 min | 30-90 min Setup, danach laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-8 | 3-10 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Waste Map, Prioritized Waste, Improvement Backlog | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication |
Tagsno overlap | FlowVisual managementDelivery | WasteLeanProcess improvement | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | ForecastingFlowDelivery |