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| Criterion | ![]() Operations Visual Management | ![]() Product Discovery Product Kata | ![]() Operations After-Action Review |
|---|---|---|---|
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. | Product Kata helps clarify customer problems, solution ideas, and evidence through a repeatable improvement routine. It captures direction, current metric, target metric, experiment notes, and learning. | After missions or project phases with unclear outcomes, the method makes visible what actually happened and what can be learned from it. It separates course, effect, and causes so experience turns into solid improvement. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 20-45 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 3-10 | 3-12 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Lessons learned, Action items, Event summary |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | LearningOperationsImprovement |
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