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Criterion
Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Paper illustration of Product Kata with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Product Kata
Paper illustration for Root Cause Analysis.
Operations
Root Cause Analysis
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.When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-2 Wochen je Loop1-4 h
Participantsdifferent
1-203-103-8
Formatsame
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesDirection, Current metric, Target metric, Experiment note, Learning reportProblem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan
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SignalsOperationsVisual management
OutcomesDiscoveryLearningIterationCoaching
Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident
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Paper illustration for 8D Problem Solving.
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8D Problem Solving
A3 Problem-Solving workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
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A3 Problem Solving
Paper illustration for Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
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Failure Mode and Effects Analysis