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| Criterion |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Facilitation Dot Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | High | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-90 min | 60-120 min | 90-180 min | 5-15 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 5-12 | 3-8 | 3-20 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist |
Tagsno overlap | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization |