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| Criterion |  Agile NoEstimates |  Engineering Kanban |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  Agile Story Splitting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules. | 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 many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. | When a story becomes too large for a clean flow, it breaks scope down along value and risk. It shapes the work into a form that ships earlier and is easier to verify. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | laufend | Ongoing | 30-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-12 | 3-12 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing Rules | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationForecastingFlow | FlowVisual managementDelivery | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | BacklogIterationDelivery |