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| Criterion |  Facilitation Dot Voting |  Decision Making Pre-Mortem |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | In early initiatives with many uncertainties, planning quickly turns too optimistic. A pre-mortem makes the expected failure visible in advance and sharpens the view of causes, gaps, and countermeasures. | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 5-15 min | 20–45 min | 60-120 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-20 | Small cross-functional group | 5-12 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ranked list, Consensus signal, Shortlist | Risk list, Mitigation plan, Assumption log | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationVotingConsensusPrioritization | RiskDecisionFailurePlanning | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |