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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |  Agile Bucket System |  Delivery Cost of Delay |  Agile Affinity Estimation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. | When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates. | 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. | When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 30-90 min | 90-180 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 3-12 | 3-8 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items |
Tagsno overlap | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing |