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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Growth Flywheel |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Growth often breaks down where a reinforcing mechanism builds up too much friction. A Flywheel shows the cycle of value, repetition, and reinforcement meant to sustain growth. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 60-120 min | 45-90 min | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-8 | 2-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Flywheel Map, Friction Points, Growth Levers, Experiment Backlog | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | GrowthRetentionConversion | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | AgileDiscoveryDelivery |