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Criterion
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
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
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.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumHigh
Timedifferent
Ongoing1-3 h90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
1-204-103-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Visual Board, Status Indicators, Exception CuesCurrent-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck listCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
SignalsOperationsVisual management
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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