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Criterion
Paper illustration of Opportunity Scoring with its method-specific working model.
Product Discovery
Opportunity Scoring
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of a branching impact map with a Why goal at the root, actor circles, How behavior changes and What options.
Product Strategy
Impact Mapping
Paper illustration of Cost of Delay with its method-specific working model.
Delivery
Cost of Delay
Purposedifferent
When opportunities need ranking by their effect, it makes importance and satisfaction directly comparable. It separates problem, assumption, solution, and evidence. The result is captured as an opportunity-score table and top outcomes.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 a goal needs to be connected to several possible paths, it shows chains of impact instead of feature lists. It connects business goal, behavior change, and measures.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
MediumHighMediumHigh
Timedifferent
60-120 min1-4 Wochen45-90 min90-180 min
Participantsdifferent
3-66-30 Experten3-83-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshopWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Opportunity Score Table, Top OutcomesExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesImpact Map, Outcome Hypotheses, Delivery OptionsCoD Table, Prioritization Sequence
Tagsno overlap
PrioritizationDiscoveryOutcomesNeeds
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
OutcomesStrategyBehaviorPlanning
PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision
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