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| Criterion |  Operations Visual Management |  Product Discovery Product Kata |  Operations Kaizen Event |  UX Design Lean UX Canvas |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For a tightly scoped process segment with noticeable waste, the method bundles shared energy for change. It suits situations that call for fast learning loops and visible adjustments. | The Lean UX Canvas helps clarify user behavior, touchpoints, and concept decisions. It makes assumptions and desired outcomes visible and captures the result as a completed canvas, hypothesis list, and first experiment. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 1-2 Wochen je Loop | 0.5-5 Tage | 2-3 h |
Participantsdifferent | 1-20 | 3-10 | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception Cues | Direction, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning report | Kaizen Charter, Waste List, Improvement Experiments, Standard Work Update | Completed Lean UX Canvas, Hypothesis list, First experiment |
Tagsno overlap | SignalsOperationsVisual management | OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching | LeanContinuous improvementOperations | CanvasHypothesisOutcomesDiscovery |