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| Criterion |  Agile Scrum |  Decision Making Decision Matrix |  Agile Example Mapping |  Decision Making Trade-off 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 several options collide with several criteria, comparison quickly becomes subjective. A Decision Matrix makes the trade-off visible and brings weighting, criteria, and options into a shared logic. | When a story carries business rules and exceptions, it brings clarity before implementation. It makes examples, open questions, and boundaries visible enough that the logic becomes jointly sound. | 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. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 45-90 min | 30-60 min | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 2-8 | 3-7 | 2-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Decision Matrix, Scoring Rationale, Selected Option | Example Map, Acceptance Criteria, Open Questions | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | DecisionCriteriaScoringTradeoffs | Behavior-Driven DevelopmentRequirementsExamplesRefinement | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions |