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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Engineering Kanban |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | 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. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 45-90 min | Ongoing | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 2-8 | 2-12 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | FlowVisual managementDelivery | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |