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| Criterion | ![]() Decision Making Risk Matrix | ![]() Product Discovery Dual-Track Agile | ![]() Delivery MoSCoW | ![]() Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a project faces many possible disruptions, it quickly becomes unclear which risks deserve attention first. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Risk Matrix and a Top Risk List. | When uncertainty and delivery run in parallel, it separates learning work from implementation while keeping both connected. It prevents unvalidated ideas from falling directly into the delivery stream. | 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. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. |
Complexitydifferent | Low | Medium | Low | Low |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | Laufend, Wochen bis Monate | 30-90 min | 45-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 4-10 | 3-12 | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Risk Matrix, Top Risk List | Discovery Backlog, Delivery Backlog, Experiment-Ergebnisse, Validierte Stories | Prioritized Backlog, Release Scope, Tradeoff Notes | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan |
Tagsno overlap | RiskDecisionPrioritizationAssessment | AgileDiscoveryDelivery | PrioritizationScopeDecision | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery |



