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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Agile Story Splitting |  Operations A3 Problem Solving |  Engineering Kanban |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 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. | For a complex deviation with several people involved, the method bundles problem, analysis, and decision onto one page. It creates a shared working space where causes, countermeasures, and follow-up fit together. | When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 30-60 min | 45-90 min | Ongoing |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-6 | 2-5 | 2-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale | A3 Report, Action Plan, Root Cause Analysis | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | BacklogIterationDelivery | LeanProblem solvingCoachingOperations | FlowVisual managementDelivery |