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| Criterion | ![]() Delivery Value Stream Mapping | ![]() Agile WSJF | ![]() Product Strategy RICE Scoring | ![]() Engineering Kanban |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 many initiatives compete for the same resources, it brings reach, impact, confidence, and effort into one shared ranking. It makes prioritization economically connectable. | When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 60-90 min | Ongoing |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-10 | 2-10 | 2-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | RICE Scores, Ranked List, Assumption Log | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics |
Tagsno overlap | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | PrioritizationScoringRoadmapTradeoffs | FlowVisual managementDelivery |



