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Visual Management workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Operations
Visual Management
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
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 delivery work dissolves into wait times, handoffs, and hidden effort, Value Stream Mapping makes the actual flow visible. The method exposes bottlenecks, idle time, and feedback loops so lead time and improvement levers become tangible.
Complexitydifferent
LowMedium
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
1-204-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesCurrent-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
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