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Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration for Mad Sad Glad
Agile
Mad Sad Glad
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of a team retrospective with three separate Start, Stop, and Continue areas and a shared action list.
Agile
Start Stop Continue
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.When a team's or workshop's mood needs to become readable, it structures emotional signals with little setup. It makes strain, relief, and sources of energy tangible.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.When a team wants to deliberately adjust its working behavior, it makes habits visible and assessable. It focuses on concrete changes instead of diffuse mood.
Complexitydifferent
LowLowHighLow
Timedifferent
Ongoing30-60 min1-4 Wochen30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
1-203-106-30 Experten3-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesEmotion Board, Themes, Action ItemsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesStart Stop Continue Board, Improvement Actions
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
RetrospectiveTeamReflection
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
RetrospectiveImprovementTeamReflection
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