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Criterion
Paper illustration for T-Shirt Sizing.
Agile
T-Shirt Sizing
Paper illustration for Story Points.
Agile
Story Points
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
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Bottleneck Analysis
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 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.For a flow that backs up at one point, the method looks for the capacity limit with the greatest leverage. It explains why extra effort elsewhere barely improves throughput.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
15-45 minlaufend, 1-5 min je Item1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
2-123-93-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Size Buckets, Rough Backlog Map, Split CandidatesPoint Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity DataBottleneck Map, Flow Metrics, Improvement Options, Follow-up Measures
Tagsno overlap
EstimationAgileRoadmap
EstimationAgileMeasurement
FlowMeasurementConstraints
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Paper illustration for Theory of Constraints.
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Theory of Constraints