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Criterion
Paper session grid with two time blocks, three rooms, colored session cards and an open topic pool.
Facilitation
Barcamp
Paper illustration for NoEstimates.
Agile
NoEstimates
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Purposedifferent
When many people can contribute knowledge and the flow should stay open, Barcamp provides a framework for self-organized sessions. The format channels energy without defining the content too narrowly in advance.When estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules.When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together.When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighLow
Timedifferent
Halber Tag bis 2 Tagelaufend1-4 Wochen60-90 min
Participantsdifferent
15-2002-126-30 Experten4-10
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Session Board, Session Notes, Community LearningsThroughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing RulesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesProblem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationLarge groupLearning
EstimationForecastingFlow
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
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