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Criterion
Paper illustration for Ideal Days.
Agile
Ideal Days
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration for Planning Poker.
Agile
Planning Poker
Purposedifferent
When effort needs to be thought of as real working time, it offers a simple common denominator for comparison. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, and Capacity Caveats.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.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.When estimates within the team diverge too much, it puts differing expectations on a common test bench. It separates rough complexity from unspoken assumptions.
Complexitydifferent
LowMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
15-60 min30-90 min45-120 min2-5 min je Item
Participantsdifferent
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Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity CaveatsAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesRelative Estimates, Assumption Notes, Split Candidates
Tagsno overlap
EstimationEffortAgile
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
EstimationAgileRelative sizingTeam
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