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| Criterion |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |  Architecture Request for Comments |  Innovation Brainstorming |  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. | An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale. | When a team faces an open question with many obvious directions, the method first creates breadth instead of premature commitment. It separates idea flow from evaluation and makes lines of thought visible, creating a pool for selection and further development. | 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 | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 60-120 min | 1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung | 30-60 min | 10-20 min |
Participantsdifferent | 5-12 | 3-20 Reviewer | 4-12 | 4-100+ |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Async | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority | RFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or tickets | Idea pool, Theme clusters, Shortlist | Idea List, Shared Insights, Emergent Themes |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion | ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance | BrainstormingIdeationCreativityWorkshopDivergence | FacilitationInclusionIdeation |