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Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration of RAID Log with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Delivery
RAID Log
Paper illustration of Product Kata with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Product Kata
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as a RAID Log and a source for status reporting.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend30 min Setup, dann laufend1-2 Wochen je Loop
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)1-3 maintaining, briefing for everyone3-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalRAID Log, Status Report SourceDirection, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
RiskTrackingStakeholdersGovernance
OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching
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Paper illustration of Strategy Execution Loop with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Strategy Execution Loop
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
Paper illustration: scenarios and architectural decisions are connected to identified risks.
Architecture
ATAM (Architecture Tradeoff Analysis Method)