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Criterion
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Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
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Decision Making
Option Framing
Paper illustration for NoEstimates.
Agile
NoEstimates
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
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.In early decisions, alternatives are often still vague, incomplete, or blended together. Option Framing brings every possibility into a comparable form and makes visible which variant actually fits the question.When estimating slows a team down more than it helps, it shifts the focus to flow, small slices, and real lead time. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Throughput Data, Flow Forecast, and Slicing Rules.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
HighMediumMediumHigh
Timedifferent
30-90 min Setup, danach laufend45-120 minlaufend1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
1-83-82-126-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationOption Frames, Assumption Notes, Comparable Shortlist, Decision InputsThroughput Data, Flow Forecast, Slicing RulesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
ForecastingFlowDelivery
OptionsDecision framingStrategyComparison
EstimationForecastingFlow
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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