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| Criterion |  Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile |  Decision Making Decision Matrix |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic. | With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects. | 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 | Medium | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 45-90 min | 45-120 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-10 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |