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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Decision Making Assumption Surfacing |  Architecture Architecture Communication Canvas |  Delivery Cost of Delay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | Plans often contain assumptions that were never openly stated and remain dangerous precisely because of that. Assumption Surfacing makes these silent premises visible and prioritizes which of them carry the initiative or could sink it. | The Architecture Communication Canvas plans architecture communication so the right people receive the right message. The method turns technical complexity into deliberate communication design. | Helps clarify scope, order, and delivery flow in concrete terms. It makes work, constraints, and sequence manageable. The result is captured as a Cost of Delay table and prioritization sequence. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Low | Medium | High |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 45-90 min | 60-120 min | 90-180 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 2-8 | 2-8 | 3-8 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Assumption List, Critical Assumptions, Learning Plan | Communication Canvas, Stakeholder Messages, Architecture Communication Plan | CoD Table, Prioritization Sequence |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | AssumptionsRiskDecisionDiscovery | ArchitectureCommunicationStakeholdersCanvas | PrioritizationDeliveryEconomicsDecision |