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Criterion
Paper illustration of the Lightning Decision Jam working structure.
Facilitation
Decision Jam
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Purposedifferent
When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication.When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable.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
LowHighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
60-90 min30-90 min Setup, danach laufend1-2 h1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
4-101-84-126-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
WorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshopAsync
Outputdifferent
Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, ExperimentForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop
ForecastingFlowDelivery
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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