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| Criterion | ![]() Engineering Kanban | ![]() Decision Making Risk Matrix | ![]() Delivery Monte Carlo Forecasting | ![]() Decision Making Delphi Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When work sits in too many parallel streams, throughput suffers and no one sees the bottlenecks. Kanban makes the flow of work visible and limits overload so a system becomes calmer and more predictable. | When a project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | High |
Timedifferent | Ongoing | 30-60 min | 30-90 min Setup, danach laufend | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 2-12 | 3-10 | 1-8 | 6-30 Experten |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Kanban board, WIP policies, Flow metrics | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk Communication | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes |
Tagsno overlap | FlowVisual managementDelivery | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | ForecastingFlowDelivery | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy |



