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| Criterion |  Agile Story Splitting |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Agile Bucket System |  Agile NoEstimates |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates. | When estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 1-3 h | 30-90 min | laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 4-10 | 3-12 | 2-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates | Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing Rules |
Tagsno overlap | BacklogIterationDelivery | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | EstimationForecastingFlow |