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Criterion
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
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.When delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumHighHigh
Timedifferent
30-90 min Setup, danach laufend1-3 h1-4 Wochen90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
1-84-106-30 Experten3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationCurrent-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
ForecastingFlowDelivery
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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