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| Criterion |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Decision Making Decision Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 45-120 min | 1-4 Wochen | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-8 | 2-8 | 6-30 Experten | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List |
Tags1 shared | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | DecisionTreeOptions |