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Criterion
Paper illustration of Product Kata with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Product Kata
Paper illustration for Bucket System.
Agile
Bucket System
Paper illustration of a branching tree with an outcome at its root, customer opportunities, solution options and small experiment cards.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Solution Tree
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
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 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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-2 Wochen je Loop30-90 min1-2 h Setup, laufend30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-103-122-63-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning reportBucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split CandidatesOpportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning LogAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
Tagsno overlap
OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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