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Criterion
Context Map workspace showing the question, observations, and next decision.
Domain Modeling
Context Map
Paper illustration for OODA Loop.
Decision Making
OODA Loop
Paper illustration of Five-Minute VC Check with its method-specific working model.
Business Strategy
5-Minuten VC-Check
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Purposedifferent
When several contexts need to talk to each other, it makes their relationships and dependencies legible. It helps sort integration pressure and responsibilities across system boundaries.In dynamic situations, decisions become outdated faster than they can be prepared. The OODA Loop holds observing, orienting, deciding, and acting together as a recurring rhythm so reaction does not slide into inertia.The 5-Minute VC Check clarifies opportunities and strategic options at the earliest idea stage. It compares problem quality, customer willingness to pay, alternatives, differentiation, and market potential, and captures the result as a VC-check note, go/sharpen/park decision, and risk list.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLowHigh
Timedifferent
1-3 h15-60 min je Zyklus5-15 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
2-81-81-56-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Context Map, Integration Patterns, Boundary NotesSituation Assessment, Decision Loop, Action UpdatesVC-check note, Go/sharpen/park decision, Risk and assumption list, Next validation stepExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
Domain-Driven DesignBoundariesStrategy
DecisionChangeLearningStrategy
StartupValidationCompetition
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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