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| Criterion |  Agile WSJF |  Facilitation Consensus Workshop |  Operations Root Cause Analysis |  Facilitation Decision Jam |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Purposedifferent | When many tasks compete for the same capacity, it orders work by economic impact. It makes time lost, benefit, and effort comparable together. | When a group needs a solid decision without outvoting individual factions, a Consensus Workshop creates a negotiable common ground. It makes agreement, reservations, and open tensions discussable at the same time. | When a problem keeps recurring and the cause stays unclear, the method exposes the underlying mechanism. It separates symptom, guess, and robust explanation from one another. | When a decision is stuck, Decision Jam loosens the knot through structured separation of problem, idea, and selection. The format creates movement without jumping prematurely at the first seemingly elegant answer. |
Complexitydifferent | High | Medium | Medium | Low |
Timedifferent | 45-90 min | 1-3 h | 1-4 h | 60-90 min |
Participantsdifferent | 3-10 | 5-30 | 3-8 | 4-10 |
Formatdifferent | Workshop | Workshop | Workshop + async | Workshop |
Outputdifferent | Ranked Backlog, Cost-of-Delay Assumptions | Consensus Clusters, Theme Titles, Priority Areas | Problem Statement, Cause Hypotheses, Confirmed Causes, Action Plan | Problem Cluster, Prioritized Challenge, Experiment |
Tagsno overlap | LeanEconomicsSequencePrioritization | FacilitationConsensusWorkshopAlignment | Root causeProblem solvingQualityIncident | FacilitationDecisionProblem solvingWorkshop |