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| Criterion |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Operations Change Analysis |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | For a deviation after a change, the method isolates the influence of the altered condition. It narrows down which differences are relevant and which are just accompanying noise. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 45-120 min | 45-90 min | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-6 | 2-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Change Matrix, Cause Hypotheses, Validation Questions, Action List | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | ChangeRoot causeTroubleshootingComparison | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | AgileDiscoveryDelivery |