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Criterion
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Value Stream Mapping workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Delivery
Value Stream Mapping
Purposedifferent
When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication.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
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Timedifferent
45-90 min90-180 min30-90 min Setup, danach laufend1-3 h
Participantsdifferent
3-103-81-84-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsCoD Table, Prioritization SequenceForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationCurrent-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list
Tagsno overlap
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
ForecastingFlowDelivery
LeanFlowWasteDelivery
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