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| Criterion |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Operations Visual Management |  Delivery Monte Carlo Forecasting |  Operations Gemba Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 high tempo and many parallel topics, the method makes status, deviations, and priorities visible at a glance. It reduces search effort and prevents what matters from getting lost in daily work. | 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 there is uncertainty about the real course of a process, the method brings observation to the place where work happens. It combines perception, follow-up questions, and process knowledge so decisions rest on actual workflows instead of assumptions. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | Ongoing | 30-90 min Setup, danach laufend | 30-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 1-20 | 1-8 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication | Observation Notes, Improvement Ideas |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | SignalsOperationsVisual management | ForecastingFlowDelivery | LeanObservationProcessOperations |