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Criterion
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Communication Plan
Delivery
Communication Plan
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
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.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 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 several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.
Complexitydifferent
HighHighLowMedium
Timedifferent
90-180 min1-4 Wochen45-90 min1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-86-30 Experten2-64-12
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
CoD Table, Prioritization SequenceExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesCommunication Plan, Channel Matrix, Message CadenceAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
CommunicationStakeholdersDeliveryPlanning
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
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