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Paper illustration for Wideband Delphi.
Decision Making
Wideband Delphi
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Paper illustration for Bucket System.
Agile
Bucket System
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.Helps clarify scope, sequence, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, boundaries, and order steerable. The result is captured as Forecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, and Risk Communication.When a large batch of work needs a fast, rough estimate, it sorts items into predefined size buckets. It sorts work by value, risk, and delivery ability. The result is captured as a Bucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, and Split Candidates.
Complexitydifferent
HighHighMedium
Timedifferent
1-4 h or multiple rounds30-90 min Setup, danach laufend30-90 min
Participantsdifferent
4-12 Experten1-83-12
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshop + asyncWorkshop
Outputdifferent
Estimate Range, Assumption Log, Expert Consensus NotesForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationBucketed Backlog, Relative Estimates, Split Candidates
Tagsno overlap
EstimationExpertsForecasting
ForecastingFlowDelivery
EstimationBacklogRelative sizing
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Paper illustration for Affinity Estimation.
Agile
Affinity Estimation
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
Decision Making
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