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Criterion
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration of an IBIS map with issues, positions and arguments
Knowledge Modeling
IBIS
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
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.IBIS structures thinking about complex questions as a sequence of issues, ideas, and arguments. The method keeps discussions open without forcing them into premature consensus.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 h1-3 h30-90 min Setup, danach laufend1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
4-102-81-81-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listIssue Map, Positions, Argument NotesForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision Rationale
Tagsno overlap
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
RationaleKnowledgeDecision
ForecastingFlowDelivery
SensemakingDecisionRationale
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