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Criterion
Paper illustration for Solution Interview
Product Discovery
Solution Interview
Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration of Decision Rights Mapping with its method-specific working model.
Decision Making
Decision Rights Mapping
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Purposedifferent
When a solution idea is already on the table, it checks how it is understood and evaluated. It looks for resonance, objections, and missing fit early in the conversation.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.In organizations with many stakeholders, it often blurs who actually decides and who is merely consulted. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as a Decision Rights matrix and an agreement.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumMediumMediumLow
Timedifferent
30-60 min je Interview45-120 min90-180 min30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
5-10 Interviews2-84-122-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Solution Feedback, Objection List, Validation NotesTrade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesDecision Rights Matrix, AgreementConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
Tagsno overlap
ValidationInterviewsPrototype
TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions
DecisionGovernanceAlignmentResponsibility
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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