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Criterion
Paper illustration for Story Points.
Agile
Story Points
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration for Constraint Analysis.
Decision Making
Constraint Analysis
Purposedifferent
When teams want to rate complexity rather than hours, it creates a shared, relative scale. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as Point Estimates, Reference Stories, and Velocity Data.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.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
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Timedifferent
laufend, 1-5 min je Item1-4 Wochen30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
3-96-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Point Estimates, Reference Stories, Velocity DataExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesConstraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries
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EstimationAgileMeasurement
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions
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Paper illustration for Wideband Delphi.
Decision Making
Wideband Delphi
Paper illustration for Bottleneck Analysis.
Operations
Bottleneck Analysis
Paper illustration of Counter Metrics with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
Counter Metrics
Decision Tree method illustration showing its working structure
Decision Making
Decision Tree