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Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h45-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-101-63-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogRanked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions
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LeanFlowWasteDelivery
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
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Delivery
Cost of Delay
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Innovation
Lean Startup
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting