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| Criterion |  Agile Bucket System |  Business Strategy Three Horizons |  Business Strategy PESTLE Analysis |  Agile Affinity Estimation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Three Horizons helps clarify strategic options across different timeframes. It compares strengths, risks, market logic, and investment choices, and captures the result as a horizon map, portfolio view, and initiatives per horizon. | PESTLE Analysis makes political, economic, social, technological, legal, and environmental influences visible. The environment of an initiative is thereby read systematically instead of through isolated trends. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ | 1-3 h | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-12 | 3-12 | 2-10 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates | Horizon map, Portfolio view, Initiatives per horizon, Resource plan | PESTLE Map, External Risks, Strategic Questions | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | StrategyInnovationPortfolioForesight | StrategyMarketAnalysis | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing |