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Criterion
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of Stakeholder Salience Model with its method-specific working model.
Facilitation
Stakeholder Salience Model
Paper illustration for DACI
Decision Making
DACI
Purposedifferent
When many people need to be informed in parallel and messages would otherwise arrive unevenly or too late, a Communication Plan orders communication reliably. Channels, audiences, and cadences interlock so important information doesn't get lost.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 stakeholders appear to matter very differently, the Stakeholder Salience Model rates their actual priority through power, legitimacy, and urgency. It turns individual contributions into a visible selection. The result is captured as a Salience diagram and a class-based strategy.In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated.
Complexitydifferent
LowHighMediumLow
Timedifferent
45-90 min1-4 Wochen60-90 min30-60 min
Participantsdifferent
2-66-30 Experten3-62-10
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Communication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesSalience Diagram, Strategy per ClassDACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log
Tagsno overlap
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StakeholdersFacilitationAlignmentGovernance
DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment
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