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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
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
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 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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
45-120 minOngoing1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
3-82-126-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Option Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsKanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
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Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
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Cost of Delay
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
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Decision Framing Workshop