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| Criterion |  Decision Making Wideband Delphi |  Business Strategy McKinsey 7S |  Product Strategy Counter Metrics |  Engineering Goal Question Metric |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | A single opinion rarely holds up for planning when the future is genuinely uncertain. It separates options, evaluation criteria, and open risks. The result is captured as an Estimate Range, Assumption Log, and Expert Consensus Notes. | McKinsey 7S checks whether Strategy, Structure, Systems, Shared Values, Skills, Style, and Staff fit together. Organizational misalignments become visible across multiple levers as a result. | When a headline metric could mask side effects, it adds guardrail signals against unwanted outcomes. It connects customer value, product logic, and decision priorities. The result is captured as a counter-metric list and guardrail definitions. | Helps clarify technical problems, hypotheses, and next steps in concrete terms. It breaks a technical problem into testable parts. The result is captured as a GQM table and metric briefs. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Low | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h or multiple rounds | 2-4 h | 30-60 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 Experten | 3-12 | 2-6 | 3-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Estimate Range, Assumption Log, Expert Consensus Notes | 7S Assessment, Alignment Gaps, Change Actions | Counter Metric List, Guardrail Definitions | GQM Table, Metric Profiles |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationExpertsForecasting | OrganizationStrategyAlignmentChange | MetricsMeasurementStrategyExperiments | MetricsMeasurementEngineeringAlignment |