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| Criterion |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 4-12 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | StrategyMetricsExecution | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |
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