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| Criterion |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Agile WSJF |  Operations A3 Problem Solving |  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 many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | For a complex deviation with several people involved, the method bundles problem, analysis, and decision onto one page. It creates a shared working space where causes, countermeasures, and follow-up fit together. | 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 | High | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 3-10 | 2-5 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | A3 Report, Action Plan, Root Cause Analysis | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | LeanProblem solvingCoachingOperations | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |