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| Criterion |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Delivery Monte Carlo Forecasting |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Engineering Kanban |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication. | 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 work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 30-90 min Setup, danach laufend | 1-4 Wochen | Ongoing |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 1-8 | 6-30 Experten | 2-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics |
Tagsno overlap | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | ForecastingFlowDelivery | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | FlowVisual managementDelivery |