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| Criterion |  Agile Affinity Estimation |  Product Discovery Opportunity Solution Tree |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Agile Bucket System |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 discovery keeps swinging between goals, ideas, and learning loops, it creates clear steering logic. It connects the desired outcome, opportunities, and experiments into a legible structure. | 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. | When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 1-2 h Setup, laufend | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 2-6 | 4-12 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items | Opportunity Solution Tree, Experiment Backlog, Learning Log | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | DiscoveryOutcomesExperimentsOpportunity | StrategyMetricsExecution | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing |