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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Decision Making Argument Mapping |  Agile WSJF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on. | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 90-180 min | 1-3 h | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-8 | 1-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Argument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | SensemakingDecisionRationale | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization |