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Criterion
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
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.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.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.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
30-90 min Setup, danach laufend60-120 minOngoing2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-82-82-123-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next ExperimentsKanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
Tagsno overlap
ForecastingFlowDelivery
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
FlowVisual managementDelivery
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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