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Criterion
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Three Amigos method illustration showing its working structure
Agile
Three Amigos
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration of a yellow story card, blue rule cards, green example cards and a red question card on a light workspace.
Agile
Example Mapping
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 story, test, and implementation could drift apart, it brings business perspective, engineering, and quality together early. It prevents a story from being read differently only late in the process.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication.When a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h15-30 min30-90 min Setup, danach laufend30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
4-1031-83-7
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listClarified Story, Test Examples, Open QuestionsForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationExample Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions
Tagsno overlap
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
CollaborationBehavior-Driven DevelopmentQualityRefinement
ForecastingFlowDelivery
Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement
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