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| Criterion |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Facilitation Nominal Group Technique |
|---|---|---|
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. | When loud voices could dominate a round, Nominal Group Technique protects individual thinking time from group effects. It collects ideas separately first and only then enables shared weighting. |
Complexitysame | Medium | Medium |
Timedifferent | 45-120 min | 60-120 min |
Participantsdifferent | 2-8 | 5-12 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Ranked Ideas, Clarified Options, Group Priority |
Tagsno overlap | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | FacilitationPrioritizationVotingInclusion |
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