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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  Agile Ideal Days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. | When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. | When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 30-90 min | 15-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 4-10 | 3-12 | 2-9 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity Caveats |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | EstimationEffortAgile |