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Criterion
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration for Wideband Delphi.
Decision Making
Wideband Delphi
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
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.A single opinion rarely holds up for planning when the future is genuinely uncertain. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as an Estimate Range, Assumption Log, and Expert Consensus Notes.When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes.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
HighHighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
90-180 min1-4 h or multiple rounds30-90 min1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
3-84-12 Experten3-126-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
CoD Table, Prioritization SequenceEstimate Range, Assumption Log, Expert Consensus NotesAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
EstimationExpertsForecasting
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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