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Criterion
Paper illustration for Wideband Delphi.
Decision Making
Wideband Delphi
A paper-based illustration representing WSJF with its core stages and visible working result.
Agile
WSJF
Paper illustration for Monte Carlo Forecasting.
Delivery
Monte Carlo Forecasting
Anonymous individual judgments pass through feedback loops to form a distribution.
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 tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together.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 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.
Complexitysame
HighHighHighHigh
Timedifferent
1-4 h or multiple rounds45-90 min30-90 min Setup, danach laufend1-4 Wochen
Participantsdifferent
4-12 Experten3-101-86-30 Experten
Formatdifferent
Workshop + asyncWorkshopWorkshop + asyncAsync
Outputdifferent
Estimate Range, Assumption Log, Expert Consensus NotesRanked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay AssumptionsForecast Percentiles, Throughput Dataset, Risk CommunicationExpert Forecast, Consensus Range, Assumption Notes
Tagsno overlap
EstimationExpertsForecasting
LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization
ForecastingFlowDelivery
ForecastingExpertsDecisionStrategy
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