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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Agile Scrum |  Agile Story Splitting |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries. | When a story becomes too large for a clean flow, it breaks scope down along value and risk. It shapes the work into a form that ships earlier and is easier to verify. | When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 30-60 min | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 2-6 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | AgileIterationCadence | BacklogIterationDelivery | AgileDiscoveryDelivery |