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| Criterion |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |  Decision Making Risk Matrix |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. | When a project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | High | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 90-180 min | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-8 | 4-10 | 3-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment |