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| Criterion |  Agile NoEstimates |  Agile Story Splitting |  Agile Bucket System |  Engineering Kanban |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | laufend | 30-60 min | 30-90 min | Ongoing |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 2-6 | 3-12 | 2-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing Rules | Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationForecastingFlow | BacklogIterationDelivery | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | FlowVisual managementDelivery |