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| Criterion |  Decision Making Cynefin Workshop |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Product Discovery Assumption Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When problems are unclear, chaotic, or only seemingly familiar, standard recipes fall short. A Cynefin Workshop sorts situations by the nature of their problem and connects them with matching action logic. | 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. | When assumptions still sit unordered in the room, it weighs uncertainty against leverage. It makes visible which hypotheses should be checked first. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-180 min | 90-180 min | 45-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-20 | 3-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Cynefin Map, Domain-specific Actions, Sensemaking Notes | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Assumption map, Test backlog, Risk ranking |
Tagsno overlap | ComplexitySensemakingDecision | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | AssumptionsRiskExperimentsValidation |
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