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| Criterion |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 30-90 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 4-10 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |