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Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration for Kepner-Tregoe
Operations
Kepner-Tregoe
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
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.For a disturbance that's hard to pin down, the method cleanly separates problem, cause, and decision. It reduces mixing when symptoms allow several interpretations.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend2-8 h60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)2-84-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalProblem Analysis, Decision Analysis, Risk PlanProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
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AgileIterationCadence
Problem solvingRoot causeDecisionOperations
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
Operations
8D Problem Solving
A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
A3 Problem Solving
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop