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Criterion
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration for Alignment Mapping.
Facilitation
Alignment Mapping
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for 3-Circle Venn Diagram
Facilitation
3-Circle Venn Diagram
Purposedifferent
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 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.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 three perspectives matter at the same time, a Three-Circle Venn Diagram shows the overlaps and remainders precisely. It makes visible where shared effect arises and where only a partial perspective applies.
Complexitydifferent
HighMediumHighLow
Timedifferent
30-90 min Setup, danach laufend1-2 h1-4 Wochen15-45 min
Participantsdifferent
1-84-126-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationAlignment Map, Open Issues, Decision QuestionsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesVenn Diagram, Overlap Notes, Differentiators
Tagsno overlap
ForecastingFlowDelivery
AlignmentStakeholdersStrategyFacilitation
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ComparisonFacilitationAlignment
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