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| Criterion |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Facilitation Alignment Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. | When knowledge is distributed and direct dominance should be avoided, groups quickly fall under the sway of their opinion leaders. The Delphi Method gathers assessments iteratively and gradually brings expert judgments closer together. | When several people work toward one goal but hold different mental maps, Alignment Mapping makes the discrepancies visible. It arranges goals, assumptions, and priorities so shared direction becomes verifiable. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | High | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 90-180 min | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen | 1-4 Wochen | 1-2 h |
Participantsdifferent | 3-6 | 4-12 | 6-30 Experten | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | GQM Table, Metric Profiles | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Alignment Map, Open Issues, Decision Questions |
Tagsno overlap | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment | StrategyMetricsExecution | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation |