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Criterion
Paper illustration for Story Points.
Agile
Story Points
Paper illustration for T-Shirt Sizing.
Agile
T-Shirt Sizing
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
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 effort only needs to be classified roughly, it makes comparability more important than false precision. It helps sort work quickly into manageable sizes.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
laufend, 1-5 min je Item15-45 min30-90 min Setup, danach laufend
Participantsdifferent
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Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity DataSize Buckets, Rough Backlog Map, Split CandidatesForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication
Tagsno overlap
EstimationAgileMeasurement
EstimationAgileRoadmap
ForecastingFlowDelivery
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Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
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Product Discovery
Dual-Track Agile