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Agile
Story Points
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Root Cause Analysis
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Agile
Ideal Days
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.When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
laufend, 1-5 min je Item1-4 h15-60 min
Participantsdifferent
3-93-82-9
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Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
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Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity DataProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action PlanIdeal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity Caveats
Tagsno overlap
EstimationAgileMeasurement
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
EstimationEffortAgile
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