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Criterion
Paper illustration of Scrum with its method-specific working model.
Agile
Scrum
Paper illustration for Evaporating Cloud.
Systems Thinking
Evaporating Cloud
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Future Reality Tree.
Systems Thinking
Future Reality Tree
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.The method makes visible why two seemingly incompatible demands arise and which assumption must be tested to resolve the conflict.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.A Future Reality Tree shows how desired actions are meant to lead to a better system state. The method checks whether a path of change holds together logically before time flows into implementation.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumHighHigh
Timedifferent
1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend60-120 min1-4 Wochen2-4 h
Participantsdifferent
3-10 (Scrum Team)2-86-30 Experten3-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopAsyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint GoalConflict Cloud, Assumption List, Breakthrough Ideas, Next ExperimentsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesFuture Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections
Tagsno overlap
AgileIterationCadence
Theory of ConstraintsAssumptionsSystems thinking
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange
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