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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Agile WSJF |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 45-120 min | 45-90 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 3-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions |