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| Criterion |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Agile Bucket System |  Facilitation Stakeholder Mapping |  Agile Affinity Estimation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | When an initiative depends on many people, interests, and power dynamics, Stakeholder Mapping systematically orders the environment. It shows who influences, who is affected, and where relationship management or safeguarding matters first. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 30-90 min | 60–90 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-12 | 2-8 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates | Stakeholder Map, Engagement Plan, Risk Notes | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items |
Tagsno overlap | StrategyMetricsExecution | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | StakeholdersAlignmentFacilitationChange | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing |