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Criterion
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
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 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 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.Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence.
Complexitydifferent
HighHighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
30-90 min Setup, danach laufend1-4 Wochen30-90 min90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
1-86-30 Experten3-123-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesAffinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear ItemsCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
ForecastingFlowDelivery
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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