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Paper illustration for Trade-off Analysis.
Decision Making
Trade-off Analysis
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Paper matrix with six colored hat cards for information, feeling, value, caution, ideas and process control.
Facilitation
Six Thinking Hats
Purposedifferent
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.DIBB helps clarify target groups, value, goals, and priorities by making the logic behind a decision explicit. It captures results as a DIBB document, belief list, bet list, and learning report.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.
Complexitydifferent
MediumLowMedium
Timedifferent
45-120 min1-2 h45-90 min
Participantsdifferent
2-82-84-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted DownsidesDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning reportPerspective Notes, Decision Inputs, Action Items
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StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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