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Paper illustration for Wideband Delphi.
Decision Making
Wideband Delphi
Paper illustration of a four-column Kanban board with limited ongoing work, a visible blocker and a review loop.
Engineering
Kanban
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Purposedifferent
A single opinion rarely holds up for planning when the future is genuinely uncertain. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as an Estimate Range, Assumption Log, and Expert Consensus Notes.When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable.When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 h or multiple roundsOngoing30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-12 Experten2-123-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Estimate Range, Assumption Log, Expert Consensus NotesKanban board, WIP policies, Flow metricsAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
Tagsno overlap
EstimationExpertsForecasting
FlowVisual managementDelivery
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method