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| Criterion |  Decision Making Wideband Delphi |  Decision Making Trade-off Analysis |  Decision Making Delphi Method |  Decision Making Decision Tree |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. | 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. | For decisions with follow-on paths and dependencies, a linear comparison is often not enough. A Decision Tree shows how options branch under conditions and which consequences hang on each branch. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | High | Medium |
Timedifferent | 1-4 h or multiple rounds | 45-120 min | 1-4 Wochen | 30-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 4-12 Experten | 2-8 | 6-30 Experten | 1-6 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Async | Workshop + async |
Outputdifferent | Estimate Range, Assumption Log, Expert Consensus Notes | Trade-off Matrix, Criteria List, Decision Rationale, Accepted Downsides | Expert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes | Decision Tree, Option Map, Assumption List |
Tagsno overlap | EstimationExpertsForecasting | TradeoffsDecisionCriteriaOptions | ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy | DecisionTreeOptions |