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Criterion
Paper illustration for VMGS
Business Strategy
VMGS
Paper illustration of Request for Comments (RFC) with its method-specific working model.
Architecture
Request for Comments
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
Delphi Method
Paper illustration of DIBB with its method-specific working model.
Product Strategy
DIBB
Purposedifferent
VMGS arranges vision, mission, goals, and strategies into a clear guiding logic. Direction, purpose, and priorities are connected so teams can decide more coherently.An RFC clarifies architecture context, options, and consequences. It structures technical context, alternatives, tradeoffs, open questions, and review feedback, and captures the result as an RFC document, reviewer comments, and a decision rationale.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.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.
Complexitydifferent
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Timedifferent
2-4 h1-3 Wochen vom Draft bis zur Entscheidung1-4 Wochen1-2 h
Participantsdifferent
3-123-20 Reviewer6-30 Experten2-8
Formatdifferent
WorkshopAsyncAsyncWorkshop + async
Outputdifferent
Vision Statement, Mission Statement, Goals, StrategiesRFC document, Reviewer comments, Decision rationale, Follow-up ADR or ticketsExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption NotesDIBB document, Belief list, Bet list, Learning report
Tagsno overlap
VisionGoalsStrategy
ArchitectureDecisionAsyncGovernance
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
StrategyDecisionAssumptionsHypothesis
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