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Criterion
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration for Argument Mapping
Decision Making
Argument Mapping
Paper illustration of the Force Field Analysis working structure.
Decision Making
Force Field Analysis
Purposedifferent
When a team needs to work in a fixed delivery rhythm, it stabilizes cadence, responsibility, and feedback loops. It makes collaboration reliable across sprint boundaries.When statements, evidence, and counterarguments get mixed up, a debate quickly loses its structure. Argument Mapping breaks a thesis down into its reasoning and makes visible what it really rests on.In change initiatives, supporting and restraining forces sit at the table at the same time. Force Field Analysis makes these tensions explicit and shows where change can be pushed forward by strengthening or relieving.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend1-3 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)1-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalArgument Map, Evidence Gaps, Decision RationaleForce Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
SensemakingDecisionRationale
ChangeDecisionStrategy
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Paper illustration for OODA Loop.
Decision Making
OODA Loop
Paper illustration for Cynefin Workshop.
Decision Making
Cynefin Workshop
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB