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Criterion
Paper illustration of Product Kata with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Product Kata
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
Paper illustration for Bucket System.
Agile
Bucket System
Purposedifferent
Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning.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 team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 Wochen je Loop30-90 min30-60 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-103-123-123-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning reportAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement ActionsBucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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