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Criterion
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
Purposedifferent
When a team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
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Evaporating Cloud
Paper illustration for Intervention Mapping.
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Intervention Mapping
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
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Leverage Points
Systems Mapping method illustration showing its working structure
Systems Thinking
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