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Criterion
Paper illustration for Option Framing.
Decision Making
Option Framing
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Purposedifferent
In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-120 minOngoing30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-82-122-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Option Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsKanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
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OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
FlowVisual managementDelivery
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Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop