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Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
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Agile
Ideal Days
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
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.When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend15-60 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)2-93-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalIdeal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
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AgileIterationCadence
EstimationEffortAgile
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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Paper illustration for Dot Estimation.
Facilitation
Dot Estimation