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| Criterion |  Facilitation Timeline |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Engineering Kanban |  Facilitation 1-2-4-All |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project, incident, or change process is only remembered in fragments, Timeline brings the sequence back into a readable form. It makes turning points, precursors, and after-effects recognizable over the course of time. | 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 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. | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-3 h | Ongoing | 10-20 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 4-10 | 2-12 | 4-100+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Timeline, Milestones, Insight Notes | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes |
Tagsno overlap | TimelineFacilitationSequence | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | FlowVisual managementDelivery | FacilitationInclusionIdeation |