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| Criterion |  Facilitation Responsibility Poker |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |  Decision Making DACI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When it stays unclear who carries responsibility and who only contributes, Responsibility Poker makes the distribution of responsibility explicit. It sharpens the boundaries between weighing in, deciding, and bearing consequences. | 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. | When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together. | In cross-functional decisions, responsibilities quickly blur between approval, influence, and execution. DACI arranges these roles so decision pressure, contribution, and information stay cleanly separated. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-120 min | 45-90 min | 30-60 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 4-12 | 2-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Responsibility Map, Role Agreements, Open Questions | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items | DACI Matrix, Decision Owner, Decision Log |
Tagsno overlap | RolesResponsibilityTeamFacilitation | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | FacilitationOptionsDecision | DecisionRolesGovernanceAlignment |