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| Criterion |  Decision Making Decision Rights Mapping |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | 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 | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | 2-4 h | 30-60 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 3-12 | 2-6 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Decision Rights Matrix, Agreement | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |