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| Criterion |  Agile Scrum |  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. | 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. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 Wochen je Sprint, laufend | 45-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 (Scrum Team) | 2-8 |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Increment, Sprint Goal | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides |
Tagsno overlap | AgileIterationCadence | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions |
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