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| Criterion |  Agile Ideal Days |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Decision Making Decision Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | 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. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Low | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 15-60 min | 30-90 min | 45-90 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-9 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 1-6 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Ideal Day Estimates, Assumption Notes, Capacity Caveats | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationEffortAgile | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | DecisionTreeOptions |