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| Criterion | ![]() Facilitation Nominal Group Technique | ![]() Delivery MoSCoW | ![]() Facilitation Decision Jam | ![]() Facilitation 1-2-4-All |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. | When a release carries too many demands and priorities are only ever negotiated, MoSCoW creates clear boundaries for the next cut. Must, Should, Could, and Won't make commitment, room for maneuver, and trade-off logic visible to everyone involved. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. | When many people in a group too rarely get to speak, 1-2-4-All distributes thinking time more fairly. The format builds participation step by step and makes quiet or still-unformed thoughts usable faster. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 30-90 min | 60-90 min | 10-20 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 3-12 | 4-10 | 4-100+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | Prioritized Backlog, Release Scope, Tradeoff Notes | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | PrioritizationScopeDecision | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop | FacilitationInclusionIdeation |



