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| Criterion | ![]() Agile Scrum | ![]() Decision Making Force Field Analysis | ![]() Systems Thinking Future Reality Tree | ![]() Systems Thinking Leverage Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | 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. | Leverage Points show exactly where interventions in a system produce a disproportionate effect. It draws relationships, patterns, and feedback loops. The result is captured as a leverage map and action strategy. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | High | High |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 45-90 min | 2-4 h | Half day |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 3-12 | 3-8 | 3-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Force Field Map, Change Levers, Risk Notes | Future Reality Tree, Negative Branches, Assumption List, Improved Injections | Leverage Map, Action Strategy |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | ChangeDecisionStrategy | Theory of ConstraintsSystems thinkingChange | Systems thinkingChangeStrategy |



