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| Criterion |  Facilitation Six Thinking Hats |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Agile Bucket System |  Decision Making Decision Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a topic gets stuck too quickly in the same thinking mode, Six Thinking Hats deliberately separates the perspectives. This means facts, risks, creativity, and emotional signals get worked through one after another instead of mixed together. | When an initiative stalls, the limit often lies not in the idea but in hard or soft boundary conditions. Constraint Analysis separates these limits and shows which of them can actually be shaped. | When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Low | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 30-90 min | 30-90 min | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 | 2-8 | 3-12 | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Perspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | FacilitationOptionsDecision | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | EstimationBacklogRelative sizing | DecisionTreeOptions |