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| Criterion | ![]() Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop | ![]() Product Strategy Counter Metrics | ![]() Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a decision is poorly framed, even good answers deliver little value. A Decision Framing Workshop sharpens the problem, goal, and boundaries before the actual weighing begins. | 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. | 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 | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 30-60 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-6 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |
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