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Criterion
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
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 many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
1-3 h45-90 min1-4 Wochen1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
4-103-106-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listRanked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
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LeanFlowWasteDelivery
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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