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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Systems Thinking Evaporating Cloud |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict. | 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. | A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 60-120 min | 90-180 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Conflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next Experiments | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange |