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Criterion
Paper illustration for Opportunity Interview
Product Discovery
Opportunity Interview
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Purposedifferent
When opportunities are still hidden behind signals of need, it structures conversations around needs and obstacles. It looks for patterns that lead to new product opportunities.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.With limited resources, quality, speed, cost, and risk almost always compete with each other. Trade-off Analysis makes these tensions explicit and prevents decisions from producing hidden side effects.
Complexitydifferent
MediumHighMedium
Timedifferent
30-60 min je Interview1-4 Wochen45-120 min
Participantsdifferent
5-12 Interviews6-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Interview Notes, Opportunity Themes, Customer QuotesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides
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DiscoveryInterviewsOpportunityCustomer
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
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Paper illustration of a decision table with criteria rows, weighted ratings, and a narrowly leading alternative.
Decision Making
Decision Matrix
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Decision Making
Assumption Surfacing
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Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Paper illustration for Decision Framing Workshop.
Decision Making
Decision Framing Workshop