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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Engineering Kanban |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | 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 | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 5-15 min | 60-120 min | Ongoing |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-20 | 5-12 | 2-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | FlowVisual managementDelivery |