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| Criterion |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Agile WSJF |  Decision Making Decision Framing Workshop |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | 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. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. |
Complexitydifferent | High | High | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen | 45-90 min | 60-120 min | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 6-30 Experten | 3-10 | 4-10 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Decision Frame, Decision Question, Criteria List, Evidence Plan | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides |
Tagsno overlap | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | Decision framingAlignmentCriteriaOptions | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions |