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| Criterion |  Agile Scrum |  Agile Bucket System |  Agile Story Points |  Agile Affinity Estimation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates. | When teams want to rate complexity rather than hours, it creates a shared, relative scale. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Point Estimates, Reference Stories, and Velocity Data. | When many tasks need to be classified quickly, it sorts them by perceived effort and similarity. It reduces the effort of fine-grained estimation for large volumes. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 30-90 min | laufend, 1-5 min je Item | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 3-12 | 3-9 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates | Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity Data | Affinity Size Map, Grouped Estimates, Unclear Items |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | EstimationAgileMeasurement | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing |