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Criterion
Paper illustration for T-Shirt Sizing.
Agile
T-Shirt Sizing
Paper illustration for Dot Estimation.
Facilitation
Dot Estimation
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Purposedifferent
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 size or effort can only be estimated roughly, Dot Estimation condenses the group's experience into a quick range. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as an Effort Heatmap, Risk Signals, and Discussion Targets.When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowMedium
Timedifferent
15-45 min5-20 minOngoing
Participantsdifferent
2-123-202-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Size Buckets, Rough Backlog Map, Split CandidatesEffort Heatmap, Risk Signals, Discussion TargetsKanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics
Tagsno overlap
EstimationAgileRoadmap
EstimationEffortRisk
FlowVisual managementDelivery
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Paper illustration of Dual Track Agile with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Dual-Track Agile
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting