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| Criterion |  Agile Story Splitting |  Decision Making Decision Tree |  Decision Making Constraint Analysis |  Delivery Shape Up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When a story becomes too large for a clean flow, it breaks scope down along value and risk. It shapes the work into a form that ships earlier and is easier to verify. | 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. | 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. | Shape Up helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow. It makes work boundaries and decisions explicit and captures results as pitches, bet-table decisions, and hill charts. |
Complexitydifferent | Medium | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 30-60 min | 30-90 min | 30-90 min | 6 Wochen Cycle + 2 Wochen Cool-Down |
Participantsdifferent | 2-6 | 1-6 | 2-8 | 2-4 pro Pitch |
Formatsame | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Smaller Stories, Acceptance Criteria, Split Rationale | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List | Constraint List, Hard/Soft Classification, Option Impact Notes, Decision Boundaries | Pitches, Bet-table decisions, Hill charts, Cooldown outcomes |
Tagsno overlap | BacklogIterationDelivery | DecisionTreeOptions | ConstraintsDecisionPlanningOptions | PlanningDeliveryAutonomy |