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| Criterion |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Knowledge Modeling Property Graph Schema Design |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Knowledge Modeling Competency Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | 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. | Property Graph Schema Design turns business and technical requirements into a robust graph schema. It fits when query patterns, constraints, and migrations need to be thought about together. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | Competency Questions translate a domain model into concrete questions that it must be able to answer. The method keeps the model's scope clean and prevents pretty but useless structures. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 4-8 h initial, dann iterativ | 45-90 min | 2-4 h |
Participantsdifferent | 6-30 Experten | 1-6 | 2-8 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Schema Diagram, Node and Relationship Catalog, Index Plan, Migration Scripts, Sample Queries | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Competency Question Set, Required Concepts, Test Queries, Coverage Matrix |
Tagsno overlap | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | Knowledge graphModelingSemantic | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | OntologyKnowledge graphScopeRequirementsSemantic |