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Criterion
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Purposedifferent
When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped.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 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
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Timedifferent
30-90 min1-4 Wochen30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-86-30 Experten3-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision BoundariesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items
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ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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Paper illustration for Wideband Delphi.
Decision Making
Wideband Delphi
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB