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Criterion
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Business Model Stress Test with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Business Model Stress Test
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.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.A Business Model Stress Test checks how well a business model holds up under pressure and headwinds. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and courses of action. The result is captured as a stress-test report and action plan per scenario.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighHigh
Timedifferent
30-90 min1-4 WochenHalf day
Participantsdifferent
3-126-30 Experten3-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesStress Test Report, Action Plan per Scenario
Tagsno overlap
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StrategyBusiness modelRiskDiagnosis
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Paper illustration of Value Chain Analysis with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
Value Chain Analysis
Paper illustration of VRIO Framework with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
VRIO Framework
Paper illustration for Wideband Delphi.
Decision Making
Wideband Delphi