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Criterion
Paper illustration of Dual Track Agile with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Dual-Track Agile
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Paper illustration of a MoSCoW board with four columns and a visible release boundary.
Delivery
MoSCoW
Paper illustration of an assumption matrix with prioritized test cards
Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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.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 a release carries too many demands and priorities are only ever negotiated, MoSCoW creates clear boundaries for the next cut. Must, Should, Could, and Won't make commitment, room for maneuver, and trade-off logic visible to everyone involved.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
MediumHighLowLow
Timedifferent
Laufend, Wochen bis Monate90-180 min30-90 min45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-103-83-122-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte StoriesCoD Table, Prioritization SequencePrioritized Backlog, Release Scope, Tradeoff NotesAssumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan
Tagsno overlap
AgileDiscoveryDelivery
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
PrioritizationScopeDecision
AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery
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