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Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
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.With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.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
HighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
90-180 min45-120 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
3-82-86-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
CoD Table, Prioritization SequenceTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
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PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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Paper illustration of a decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
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Decision Framing Workshop
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