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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Delivery Value Stream Mapping |  Delivery Communication Plan |  Delivery Monte Carlo Forecasting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | 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. | When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-3 h | 45-90 min | 30-90 min Setup, danach laufend |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-10 | 2-6 | 1-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Current-state map, Future-state map, Bottleneck list | Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message Cadence | Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | LeanFlowWasteDelivery | CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning | ForecastingFlowDelivery |