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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
Paper illustration of a Lean Canvas with nine fields, notes, and one highlighted learning risk.
Product Strategy
Lean Canvas
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
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 an early product bet still has too many open points, it brings target group, problem, and assumptions into a single view. It condenses the idea so core risks become nameable.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h45-90 min45-90 min30-90 min Setup, danach laufend
Participantsdifferent
4-103-101-61-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listRanked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsLean Canvas, Core Assumptions, Experiment BacklogForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication
Tagsno overlap
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
StartupLeanAssumptionsBusiness model
ForecastingFlowDelivery
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