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| Criterion |  Agile Story Points |  Operations Causal Factor Analysis |  Operations Bottleneck Analysis |  Operations Family Tree Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When teams want to rate complexity rather than hours, it creates a shared, relative scale. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Point Estimates, Reference Stories, and Velocity Data. | For an event with a complicated course, the method breaks down the contributing factors along the timeline. It shows how conditions, decisions, and reactions together produce a course of events. | For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput. | For a series of incidents with a similar pattern, the method arranges individual events as branches of a common origin. It makes visible which conditions keep recurring. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | laufend, 1-5 min je Item | 2-6 h | 1-3 h | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-9 | 3-10 | 3-8 | 2-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity Data | Event Timeline, Causal Factor Chart, Cause List, Corrective Actions | Bottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures | Family Tree Diagram, Pattern Notes, Systemic Measures |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationAgileMeasurement | CausalityIncidentRoot causeTimeline | FlowMeasurementConstraints | Root causePatternsIncidentSystemic |