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| Criterion |  Decision Making Wideband Delphi |  Product Strategy RICE Scoring |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Delphi Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | When many initiatives compete for the same resources, it brings reach, impact, confidence, and effort into one shared ranking. It makes prioritization economically connectable. | 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 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. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h or multiple rounds | 60-90 min | 45-120 min | 1-4 Wochen |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 Experten | 2-10 | 2-8 | 6-30 Experten |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async |
Outputdifferent | Estimate Range, Assumption Log, Expert Consensus Notes | RICE Scores, Ranked List, Assumption Log | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationExpertsForecasting | PrioritizationScoringRoadmapTradeoffs | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy |