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| Criterion |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a workshop has produced too many options and the group needs to condense quickly, dot voting makes preferences visible in a short time. It bundles individual votes into a solid signal for the next selection. | 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. | 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 | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 1-2 h | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 | 4-12 | 3-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |
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