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| Criterion |  Operations Accountability Ladder |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Agile Starfish Retrospective |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | With defensive reactions to problems, the method shifts the view from justification to ownership. It makes visible which reaction stage a person or team is currently stuck on. | When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together. | When improvement options need to be sorted more finely than just start and stop, it brings observations into clear kinds of action. This makes visible what should be done more, less, newly, or continued. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 20-45 min | 1-4 Wochen | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 1-8 | 6-30 Experten | 4-12 | 2-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ownership Reflection, Action Commitment, Coaching Notes | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Starfish Board, Practice Changes, Experiments | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions |
Tagsno overlap | ResponsibilityLeadershipTeam | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | RetrospectiveImprovementExperimentsTeam | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments |