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Criterion
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Paper illustration for NoEstimates.
Agile
NoEstimates
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
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 estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules.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.
Complexitysame
MediumMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-3 hlaufend45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-102-121-6
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listThroughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing RulesLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment Backlog
Tagsno overlap
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
EstimationForecastingFlow
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
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Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
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Innovation
Lean Startup
Paper illustration for Three-Point Estimation.
Decision Making
Three-Point Estimation