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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Decision Making Red Teaming |  Knowledge Modeling Knowledge Mapping |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For strategic decisions with high reach, agreement and gut feeling are often not enough. Red teaming brings deliberate opposition into the situation and tests where a plan breaks under real counterarguments. | Knowledge Mapping makes knowledge, gaps, and transfer paths visible across a field. It fits when expertise should not just exist but also be findable and transferable. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1-4 h | 1-3 h | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-8 | 3-12 | 3-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Challenge Findings, Risk Register, Mitigation Plan | Knowledge Map, Critical Knowledge Areas, Transfer Plan | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | RiskDecisionSensemaking | KnowledgeMappingRisk | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |