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| Criterion |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Facilitation Decision Jam |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | High |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 30-90 min | 60-90 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 | 2-8 | 4-10 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |