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| Criterion |  Agile Scrum |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Business Strategy Balanced Scorecard |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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 headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | 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. | Balanced Scorecard translates strategy into a few interconnected perspectives and metrics. It holds impact, steering, and learning together in daily work instead of narrowing strategy down to financial figures. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | High |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 30-60 min | 1-4 Wochen | Halber Tag bis mehrere Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 2-6 | 6-30 Experten | 4-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Balanced Scorecard, Strategic Measures, Initiative Map |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | StrategyMetricsExecution |