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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Engineering Kanban |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. | 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. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 5-15 min | Ongoing | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-20 | 2-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | FlowVisual managementDelivery | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |