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Criterion
Paper illustration for Story Points.
Agile
Story Points
Paper illustration for T-Shirt Sizing.
Agile
T-Shirt Sizing
Stakeholder Mapping
Facilitation
Stakeholder Mapping
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.When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowLow
Timedifferent
laufend, 1-5 min je Item15-45 min60–90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-92-122-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity DataSize Buckets, Rough Backlog Map, Split CandidatesStakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
EstimationAgileMeasurement
EstimationAgileRoadmap
StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange
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Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Paper illustration of Power-Interest Grid with a method-specific labelled workspace.
Facilitation
Power Interest Grid
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
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Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram