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Story Splitting method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Story Splitting
Paper illustration of the Consensus Workshop working structure.
Facilitation
Consensus Workshop
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Purposedifferent
When a story becomes too large for a clean flow, it breaks scope down along value and risk. It shapes the work into a form that ships earlier and is easier to verify.When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowHigh
Timedifferent
30-60 min1-3 h60-90 min90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
2-65-304-103-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split RationaleConsensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority AreasProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
BacklogIterationDelivery
FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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