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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Agile WSJF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | 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. | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | High |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 45-120 min | 90-180 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 3-8 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization |