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| Criterion |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 5-15 min | 1-3 h | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 3-20 | 5-30 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |