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Criterion
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration of Leverage Points with its method-specific working model.
Systems Thinking
Leverage Points
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
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.Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy.When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.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.
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Timedifferent
1-3 hHalf day45-90 min2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
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Outputdifferent
Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listLeverage Map, Action StrategyRanked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
Tagsno overlap
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
Systems thinkingChangeStrategy
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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