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| Criterion |  Agile Story Splitting |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Agile Affinity Estimation |
|---|---|---|---|
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 delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible. | When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 1-3 h | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 4-10 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items |
Tagsno overlap | BacklogIterationDelivery | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing |
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